Creating Trend 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 choose Temporal Trend.
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 is where you specify the locations you would like to search in, near or around.
You have five options on the Where Tab: Within a Boundary, Within a User Defined Boundary, Near a Feature, Near an Address and Turn Off Search by Location.

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 lets you search for incidents that have occurred in geographic boundaries. The boundaries available for you to search within will depend upon your Dashboard's configuration.
The Choose Geography Type drop down menu lets you choose which geographic boundary to search within. You can then choose specific features using the check boxes.

The Where Tab of the Create Query wizard with Within a Boundary selected.

Within a User Defined Boundary

The Within a User Defined Boundary option lets you create your own geographic boundary.
Clicking on the Create Boundary button will bring you to the map and allow you to draw your own geographic boundary.
A menu will be at the top of the map with a Cancel button, a Redraw button and a Finish button.
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 draw a boundary by left clicking where you would like to start. You can then make a straight line to the next corner of your boundary. You can make your geographic boundary in the shape of a polygon only.
When you finish drawing your boundary, double click.
You can then click the Finish button to accept your boundary. Clicking the redraw button will let you draw another boundary. Clicking cancel will bring you back to the Where Tab and your boundary will not be saved.

The Where Tab with Within a User Defined Boundary Selected.

Near A Feature

Near a Feature lets you search within a certain distance from selected features.
The Choose Geography Type drop down menu lets you choose which geographic boundary to search within.
The Search Radius drop down menu lets you specify how far around the selected feature or features you would like to search.
The check boxes next to each feature let you select which specific features to search around.

The Where Tab with Near a Feature selected.

Near an Address

The Near an Address option lets you search a selected distance around an address.
Enter an address in the search bar and click the magnifying glass.
You will be able to select the Address from a list of the closest matching addresses returned from the database.
The Search Radius drop down menu lets you choose how far around that address you would like to search.

The Where Tab with Near An Address selected.

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.

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.
In the Previous box you enter the number of days you would like to search. You can enter any number of days from 1 on. Keep in mind that you may not have data beyond a certain number of days back.
The From drop down menu lets you choose then you want the days to start. You can choose between Yesterday, Today or Previous Gap Day. Previous Gap Day allows you to specify a number of days 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.

The When Tab.

Options Tab

The Options Tab for Trend Widgets lets you set up the statistics options for your Trend Widget.
You can turn statistics on or off by clicking on the Use Statistics On/Off button in the top of the dialog.
The Trend History (Years) will let you arrow to any Year value from 1 to 10. This setting defines how many years of historical data (data previous to the current year) will be used to define the computed trend lines.
The Number of Future Days will let you specify how many project future days to display on the Trend Widget.
The Buffer Duration (Days) lets you define the number of days to include in the computation of the historical trends. The number of days selected is used to select record occurring before and after the same date but in previous years. Valid values range from 1 to 30.
The Standard Deviation Value lets you define the number of standard deviations (plus and minus) to vary from the mean in computing the standard deviation trend lines. Standard Deviations values range from 0.1% to 3.0%. The default value is 1.0.
The Use Constant Value lets you to set a constant value trend line. Select the constant value you would like to set to define the trend line.
The Use Daily Average lets you display a Daily Average trend line on the Trend Widget based upon the average records found within the previous years’ buffer periods. All dates within the buffer periods will be used.
The Use Daily Standard Deviation lets you add a Standard Deviation trend line on the Trend Widget. The standard deviation used is based upon the average records found within the previous years’ buffer periods. All dates with the buffer periods will be used.
The Use DOW Adjusted Average lets you display a DOW Adjusted Average trend line on the Trend Widget. The DOW Adjusted Average trend line is the same as the Daily Average trend line except that values computed for each day only include historical values for the same DOW. This allows for an adjustment to reflect the variance by DOW of some crime types.
The Use DOW Adjusted Standard Deviation lets you display a DOW Adjusted Standard Deviation trend line on the Trend Widget. The DOW Adjusted Average trend line is the same as the Daily Average trend line except that values computed for each day only include historical values for the same DOW. This allows for an adjustment to reflect the variance by DOW of some crime types.
The Default Statistic drop down menu will allow you to choose a Statistic to display by default for the Trend Widget. The Statistic you choose will then be displayed by default for all users when they view the Trend Widget.
The Result Layer Name box will allow you to give the Result Layer a specific name. This name will then display when you bring the Trend Widget into Analysis Mode as a Pin Map layer.

Trend Widget Options.