Creating Density Widgets

What Tab

Clicking on the Create Widget button will bring up the Create Widget wizard.
The What tab is open by default. Clicking on the Select Widget Type drop down menu will allow you to chose Density.
The Select Briefing Book drop down menu will let you choose which Briefing Book to add the widget to.
The Widget Name field is where you enter a name for the Widget.
The Widget Description field is optional but here is where you can enter a description for the widget.
Under the Select Query Layer heading is where you will see the query layers your Dashboard has been configured to use.
You can also select individual saved queries within each query layer by using the search bar on the right or by manually expanding each saved query group.

The What Tab.

Where Tab

The Where tab for a Density Map widget can help you further refine the boundaries for the Density Map that you set on the Options tab.
Before choosing options on the Where tab, you should set your Density Map Boundary Layer on the Options tab.
Once you have Density Map Boundary Layer set, you can further refine on the Where tab by specifying a geographic boundary to search within.
You can use Within a Boundary or Within a User Created Boundary to further refine your Density Map. You can also Turn Off Search by Location.
You will also notice that the Near a Feature and Near an Address options are on the Where tab for a Density Map query. These options will have no effect on your Density Map.

Turn Off Search By Location

You can turn Search by Location off using the On/Off button on the top right of the Where tab.

The Where tab with Search by Location turned off.

Within a Boundary

Within a Boundary is the first way to further refine your Density Map.
You can choose to display the Density Map Boundary Layer you specified on the Options tab within geographic boundaries of your choice.
The Choose Geography Type drop down menu lets you choose a Geographic Boundary.
The check boxes next to each feature will let you choose which features you would like to use.
For example, if you set your Density Map Boundary Layer to be Reporting Districts on the Options tab, you can choose Center Team on the Where tab to display a Density Map for all Reporting Districts in the Center Team Jurisdiction.

The Where Tab with Within a Boundary selected.

Within a User Defined Boundary

The second option you have for refining your Density Map is Within a User Defined Boundary.
Here you can create your own boundary.
Clicking on the Create Boundary button will bring up the User Defined Boundary toolbar and take you to the map.
Zoom in to the area you would like to draw your geographic boundary around. You can pan the map using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
You can start making your boundary by clicking on the map. Your boundary will only be in the shape of a polygon.
When you are finished making your boundary, double click. You can then redraw your boundary, accept your boundary or cancel.
Your Density Map will then display the boundaries you selected on the Options tab within the Boundary you drew on the Where tab.
If the boundary you draw does not contain any features, you will receive an error message and will have to go back into the Where tab and draw a new boundary. You can turn operational layers on to help you draw a boundary around desired features.

Where Tab with Within a User Defined Boundary Selected.

A User Defined Boundary on the map with the menu visible at the top.

When Tab

The When Tab allows you to specify the date and time range you would like to search for the selected incidents in.

Date Time Selection Method

This option allows you to choose the Date/Time Selection Method for the widget. The options on the drop down menu will depend upon your Dashboard's configuration. Typical options include Explicit Temporal Filter, Previous Temporal Filter, Previous Hours Temporal Filter, No Temporal Filter and Stats Interval Temporal Filter.

Date/Time Group

This option allows you to choose the Date/Time Group for the widget. The options on the drop down menu will depend upon your Dashboard's configuration.

Date

Under the Date heading is where you can set the date options for the widget.
The Units drop down lets you choose the units for the date. You can choose between None, Days, Weeks, Months and Years. The options in the drop down menu are Yesterday, Today and Previous Gap Day. Previous Gap Day lets you specify an amount of time to go back before starting your date search.

Time

Under the Time heading is where you can specify the time of day you would like to search.
The Filter Type drop down menu will let you choose between turning the time filter off, a Fixed Time Filter or a Time Span Filter.
The Fixed Time Filter will let you set a starting time and ending time for each day. Please note times are entered in Military Time, so 1:00 PM would be entered as 13:00. Checking the Use Block Duration will allow you to search the entire period for which you have entered time. For example, entering 01:00 to 08:00 from Monday through Friday and checking Use Block Duration will show everything from 01:00 Monday through 08:00 Friday. When this is unchecked, you will see everything from 01:00 to 08:00 Monday, everything from 01:00 to 08:00 Tuesday, etc.
The Time Span option lets you choose between 1 and 1000 minutes.

Day of the Week Option

Under the Day of Week heading you can choose specific days of the week to search.
The drop down menu will let you choose between Specific Days of the Week or All Days of the Week.
All Days of the Week will automatically search all days of the week.
Specific Days of the Week will let you choose which days to search. You can choose any combination of days you would like, but you must choose at least one day of the week.

The When Tab.

Options Tab

The Options Tab for Density Map widgets contains two tabs to set options on: a Boundary Layer tab and a Legend Tab.
The Boundary Layer tab is open by default and lets you set the Boundary Layer for your Density Map.
The Boundary Layer drop down lets you choose which Boundary Layer to break your density map up by.
The Boundary Selection method lets you choose to Use Spatial Filter, Select Features to Include or Select All Features.
Clicking on Use Spatial Filter brings up two more options. Are Within and Centroid now can be selected.
Clicking on Select Features to Include will allow you to select which features to include. Clicking on this will then display the features on the right side of the tab. You can use the check boxes to select features.
Clicking on Select All Features will use all features within your selected Boundary Layer.

The Options Tab with Boundary Layer tab displayed.

The second tab is the Legend Tab. The Legend Tab lets you set the options for the Density Map legend.
The Result Layer Name field lets you name the Result Layer.
The Transparency slider lets you set the transparency for the density map.
The Display By radio buttons let you chose to display by either Count or Density.
The Legend drop down menu lets you chose the color of the density map.
The Set # of Breaks drop drown lets you choose any number between 1 and 10.

The Options Tab with Legend Tab displayed.