Rollover Events & Dashboard Sorting

Hey everyone,
I am wondering if anyone has ever tried to accomplish either of the following.
1. Is it possible to create rollover events so that on mouse rollover, additional information could be view? For example, suppose we have a pie graph of revenue, as we rollover each pie piece we would like to see the top ten contributors for that pie piece in a pop up box. Is this possible?
2. I know its easy to specify sort criteria when building a report, but can you do it at runtime? I.e. suppose we have a dashboard, is it possible to allow the user to sort the data being returned on the fly? Or do we need to have multiple reports pre-built which are already sorted based on that criteria?
Thanks!
-Joe

Joe,
2nd requirment can be achieved using "Enable Column sorting in dashboards" feature in table view properties. In the results tab, select table view from drop down and Click on table view properties button and in the pop up window, You will find a check box saying "Enable Column Sorting in dashboards", Check that. save the report and check dashboard.
- Madan Thota

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I am getting the following error while applying EVENT ON SORT BEGIN/END in smartforms.While executing the program the following error is getting displayed.
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Daniel
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import caurina.transitions.properties.*;
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when I find a set of events in iCal, the list appears in the window at the bottom of the page in the correct sort order when sorted by date, title or type. When I then copy that list to the clipboard and paste it into another program (Pages, MacJournal, TextEdit) the sort order changes.
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iPhoto insists on asserting that the date of everything is important and grouping things into "events." This is defeating, or at least creating a huge hassle for, what I am doing with most of the pictures. I am either grouping things into large albums (family photos for 2007) or into projects I am working on where the pictures are taken over months and years. How can I eliminate or minimize events? I would love to simply delete them. I don't find any way to tell iPhoto not to do this or to get it to use a broad definition of time (like a year) to group things this way if it must. I've considered just putting all imports into one event - does that create a greater risk of file corruption messing me up?

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Keep trying but sort manually stays grayed out. All I want to do is sort photos within one event the way I want them to appear.

It's like iTunes:
You can view an music album on iTunes and there are all the tracks. The hit single, the annoying filler that they stuck on, all there.
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Like Playlists in iTunes, images in an iPhoto album are simply referenced from the Library. So a photo can be in any number of albums and use no extra disk space.
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