Object promptsDisplays or hides grid formatting capabilities. This determines whether the user is a report designer or a report creator. Right-click an application and choose Edit or New Application. Step 1. This article discusses how to Attach Element Prompt to a Report Using the MicroStrategy Web SDK 9. Object prompts can either determine the definition of the report template or the report filter. Create a new metric with the following definition ;Accessing the Data Captured by Platform Analytics. For information on how each type of prompt can be added to a report, see the table in About adding a prompt to a report. To prompt for multiple object types in the same report. The Administrator or Report Designer can create an object prompt with all the attributes that a user might want to include on the template of the report. Click the Empty Metric icon. For an overview and steps to add a dataset to a document, see the Document Creation Guide. Edit the object prompt and use a search object results to display results. 4. Less questions about data integrity for reports data upon execution for testing purposes; Easy workflow if only one database instance is used in an environment; Caveats. Filters. Add the prompt onto the grid of a new report > Save. Click on prompt and click next until finished. To create an object prompt, see Filtering based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts. 0. Create an intelligence cube and use the cube to create a report. To add a prompt to a metric's definition in the Metric Editor. Show sort button. Add the Image Form to the Selected Forms. Create a Report Services Document with one required Object Prompt, and two optional Object Prompts. Named as F1. x - 10. You can add a prompt directly to a report, or indirectly by adding the prompt to a metric or filter. In Design Mode, you can also choose which attribute forms are displayed on the report. Substack Notes. The Save As dialog box is displayed. Make sure the Category attribute has the Image form as a Display form. Hit 'Save' and 'Close'. Create the following object prompts: Choose a base fact. Set answerList = Prompt. If an object's name contains spaces or special characters, enclose it in square brackets [ ] within the braces. In the Multiple objects. Creating a prompt from the Filter Editor allows you to create a prompted filter. Create a report with attributes and , and metric . To specify the scaling for the Y1-axis, type a maximum, minimum, and grid interval in the Y1 Axis Values, Use Manual. ' Execute one of the following options: To specify default prompt answers, click on 'Add. Hi all, I'am working on an ad hoc report. Save the report as static, named as StaticReport. From Tools select Create Package and in the Create Package editor, click on the 'Add' button. When an OLAP report is created from an Intelligent Cube, some users may have difficulty adding prompt objects to that report. The object that the user selects to execute the target answers the target prompt. To create a list of attribute elements from which users can choose, select Use a predefined list of elements. Once your filter containing the prompt(s) is created, see Adding a filter to a report to add the filter to a report. In the Filter Editor, use the Object Browser to search for the attributes, metrics, filters, prompts, or reports you want to use in your filter. On the other hand, like other prompt objects, answers to system prompts are used to match caches. Right-click, click “new” and choose “Prompt”. Run the report choosing all the metrics. Choose Format > Graph. Add a view filter that will always evaluate to "true," such as Quarter DESC Different from "xyz. Click the MicroStrategy icon, and select Create Document. In the Data Source dialog, select Reports. Users would like to create an object prompt where they choose from a list of templates for a report in MicroStrategy 9. ) In MicroStrategy Developer, create a Freeform SQL report within a project that contains text and date prompt answers in the where. After all filter qualifications are added to the report filter, the report creator can now execute the report and receive only one prompt. Add the attributes that were used to build the object prompt to the Grouping section. Create a new report with Year on the row and object prompt 3 in the column. When the document is executed, the object prompt is displayed and its answers are shown in the document results. Introduction to Dossiers. x and 10. You can only use objects of one type in an Object prompt. To remove a single object: Click the object's header, drag it off of the report and drop it onto the Report Objects pane. Search and add the objects that are dependents of the column (listed in the result of Step 2), as shown below: NOTE: Selected objects here cannot be system objects. Answer: When attempting to add a prompt directly to an Intelligent Cube in MicroStrategy Developer 9. These types of reports give users the ability to create. Display the data in an interactive widget, such as a Google Map, Graph Matrix, or Heat Map. R performs text mining to calculate the TF-IDF based on the inputs iv. The Filter Editor opens. The following procedure describes how to add or create a prompt in a cube report in MicroStrategy Developer. Step 1. From the Data menu, choose Prompt Ordering. In the 'Search for Objects' dialog box, define the search and click on 'OK. Create a grid report with the object prompt in the report objects with another independent attribute and metric. The Create Folder dialog box is displayed. VIDEO:STEPS TO REPRODUCE. Select Display Attribute Forms. If you created a new dossier, you must save the dossier before adding an existing dataset. Without the quotations, the warehouse treats the identifiers case-insensitively, in which case colname equals COLNAME. For a full description of object templates, including a list of the objects that can use object templates, see Re-Using Objects Via Shortcuts and Object Templates . Right-click in an empty area on the right side of. For steps to create an object prompt, see Filtering based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts. Include “Qualification Prompt”. Users would like to create an object prompt where they choose from a list of templates for a report in MicroStrategy 9. This knowledge base article explains how to pass the dossier’s filter selected elements to answer the prompt of a target report service document using URL API. 7. Create a New Object Prompt. KB40663: How to add objects to the Report Builder Object Template in MicroStrategy Developer 1. Controls are the objects that display the data, images, and shapes in a document; they are the objects shown in the document's Layout area as you design the document. It will prompt for Country, Region and Call Center one by one in different pages. To do this, create the filters you want users to be able to choose from, then create an object prompt made up of existing filters, and then place that object prompt on a report. Only attributes, hierarchies, custom groups, consolidations, and metrics are valid objects in the prompt. Edit the report in web, try to add a view filter, there is no way to add prompts. Select the 'Clear Now' button. Below are the syntax and examples (from Microstrategy Tutorial Project) necissary to answer Date value, Attribute qualification, Attribute element list, Text value, and Object prompts when using the 'CREATE HISTORYLISTSUBSCRIPTION' command in MicroStrategy Command Manager 9. Put the attributes Business line, Category in the grid along with the metric sales. Create another report whose Filter is a shortcut to F1, Save the report as prompted, named as PromptReport. MicroStrategy reports can define a report limit based on one or more metric conditions. Attribute qualification prompts. x report. The object is added to the report. key Unique identifier of the prompt. Create a FreeForm SQL Report and add this nested prompt into it. 1. A blank visualization appears in the dossier. objectsPromptAnswers: Specifies the ID(s), type(s) and name(s) of the object(s) to answer a prompt, or multiple promptsWhen a report containing a system prompt runs, the prompt is answered automatically with the login of the user who runs the report. The following piece of code will execute a datamart report answering an object prompt. Specifies the ID of the report to execute. 4. 0. The object is named as "User Login" and is implemented as a prompt object. Create and save the prompt. To add a prompt to a Freeform SQL report in MicroStrategy Developer 10. Select the prompt to modify and click the up or down arrows to change its order. From the toolbar, select Run Report. Tabular Layout Cross-Tab Layout There are some important. Click 'OK'. To add a prompt to a Freeform SQL report in MicroStrategy Developer 10. Adding a prompt to a custom group's definition. Choose a sample set level. Then it presents this data to the administrators, developers, and analysts to help them optimize the performance of. Empty answer. Item(1) 'Create the prompt answer list object and populate it with the elements from the filtered list of elements, oElements answerList = oPrompt. Count of Parents in Platform Analytics: There is an OOTB metric called Objects, which calculates the parents of a component object. You can connect MicroStrategy reporting tool with any data, including big data, flat files, social media data, and so on. 0 version and upgrade to an 8. x. How to Programmatically Add a Dataset to a Document using MicroStrategy Java Web SDK 10. Returned as an integer:. To remove an object from the grid report, right-click the object's header and select Remove from Grid. Content groups can only be added to this type of configuration. Click on 'Finish'. For example, drill down from Region to Call Center on the previous report. This tool is not able only to create MicroStrategy Reports and edit existing, but can also be used to create any kind of Prompt (elements, expression, or object prompt), to set properties to. name Name of the prompt. Select a prompt answer and click Apply. You must have the Web Configure Transaction privilege. To browse to and select a previously created search object or specify the name of the search object, select Use the result of a search object. Click Object Prompt. 2. A prompt is a question the system presents to a user when a report is executed. Method 1: Using the auto text “Prompt Details”Specify any desired custom delimiter for the data elements resulting from the search object. 0 to take advantage. Get. Finish creating the qualification, beginning at this step. For steps, see the Basic Reporting Guide. Is there any way by which I could let the user vary a single attribute while the dashboard is running. The section titled Personal view subscriptions contains your personal views. It permits users to create a set of elements from an attribute based on their relationship to another attribute. The 'Select Objects' dialog box opens. Note: If a user enters more than 15 digits for a. Type SQL statement and insert Call Center Prompt created in the previous step. Create a new report containing the object prompt created in step 2I have my existing BI reporting from the SAP BO software and now I want to migrate everything to MicroStrategy. To add a prompt to the Report Filter pane in the Report Editor. For a table showing how to add each prompt type to objects, see Reports: Adding a prompt to a report, metric, filter, or custom group. So is there any way to migrate those reports to MicroStrategy directly or just if I can migrate the dimensions and measures created in SAP BO to Attributes and metrics in MicroStrategy. Auto text codes allow users to quickly and easily display prompt answers and/or report filter details in a MicroStrategy Report Services Document. In MicroStrategy Web 9. For a description of each area or pane of the MicroStrategy Web Report Editor and Design Mode, see MicroStrategy Web Report Editor interface. Once the report has run, right click the Category attribute. To create an object prompt, see Filtering based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts. Make sure that the file type is text file (. This behavior is inherent to Microsoft Excel. Each prompt must be part of a filter before it can be included in a MicroStrategy Developer 10. When creating a metric with a Moving Average function that prompts on WindowSize, it is not possible to select a Value Prompt using the function wizard in MicroStrategy Developer 9. The Object Browser only displays objects that are supported in a filter. Create a new document. Significantly more administrative and maintenance work is required. Dossiers with MicroStrategy 10. Create a document and add this report as a dataset Login in to MicroStrategy Web as administrator (not the test user) and run the document. In MicroStrategy Developer, use the Folder List on the left to navigate to the folder where you want to store your new filter. x. It will prompt for Country, Region and Call Center one by one in different pages. For example, Object prompts are most commonly placed directly on a report, but can also be placed in the condition part of a metric's definition in the Metric Editor, depending on the type of object in the Object prompt. Specify the delimiter desired for each data item, as. Right-click the report and. 4. Open the cube report in Design View. Dim answerList As IDSSFolder. " This dummy filter does not affect the report's outcome, but it forces modifications to the template to be saved into the view template instead of the base. You can create a new folder in which to save the report. 7. Create and save the prompt. This opens a window with the folder structure for the project. 3. . Instruction steps: Create a dossier, insert a text/image box. x Number of Views 494 KB38163: How Can Users Edit an Existing Subscription, Modify the Prompt Answers and Save It Using MicroStrategy SDK?The objects you can create in MicroStrategy fall into one of three groups: schema objects, application objects, and reports and documents. Even when a shortcut is used, the object prompt does not appear in the Datasets pane; you cannot add it to the document as a separate object. Open a report in Design Mode or Grid, Grid and Graph, or Graph view. From the search results the Administrator can rename or delete the objects. For more information on the Report Options dialog box, see the MicroStrategy Developer help. To specify the expression by choosing an object, click the Browse. Right-click the auto text code and then click Report Details Properties. When right-clicking on the object prompt, the options 'Add to Row', 'Add to Column', 'Add to Page-by', and 'Add to Report Objects', are grayed out. The prompt answers, and their order, in this parameter pertain only to value prompts. Case. Attributes are generally placed on the rows of a report. It supports interactive dashboard, highly detailed reports, ad-hoc query, automated report dispute, and Microsoft Office integration. Go to 'Object Types' tab, and select 'Report' and 'Document'. In this page, you will see all of your subscriptions. In Developer: In a report or document, from the File menu, select Schedule delivery to, then select History List, Update cache, or Mobile. Right click on the report in the folder browser and click on "Properties", as shown below. 5. Open the report, remove all the attributes and place the object prompt into the same place (column or row) where attributes are placed. x. Note: More elaborate programs will require additional library files and are out of the scope of this document. Click Save and Close to save your filter and close the Filter Editor. It is derived based on a count against the fact_object_component table. The response contains the prompt information. Click 'Finish' and save the prompt. Create a simple report, Customer and Call Center in rows and Cost and Profit in columns, with both prompts. A cross-tab layout is useful for multi-dimensional analysis and is generated by adding attributes to the column. If you are using Object Templates, the New Metric dialog box is displayed before the Metric Editor opens. Report runs successfully when all optional prompts are answered. In the Properties window, go to the "Description" section and enter line breaks or HTML tags, as shown in the screenshot below: Click OK. The object's editor or wizard opens. Click New Dossier. Otherwise, the reports may fail. For an overview and steps to add a dataset to a document, see the Document Creation Help. Right-click the grid report, transaction table, or any of the text fields in the panel stack, then select Configure Transaction. To specify default answers for the prompt, check the 'Choose default prompt answers' checkbox and click on 'Next. Select a filter or prompt and click Edit if needed. Schema objects are building block objects; they are. There are three types of objects: schema objects, application objects, and configuration objects. Click OK to save your filter definition and close the Attribute Qualification pane. You are a financial analyst and want to build a grid to analyze each region’s performance across different set of products, like home equity loans and certificates of deposit, all in the same view. This technical note describes a MicroStrategy Excel issue where the first object column in a report after exporting a report from MicroStrategy Web 9. Dossiers automatically adjust to look great on any screen. 3. To create a widget, you first create a Grid/Graph and then define various Flash properties. Add the data to a graphical representation, such as a bar graph or pie chart. Select 'Fixed column widths' and select 'Metrics' from the drop down menu. x. What is Prompt, and what are its types? Answer: All report contents can be modified dynamically through an attribute called as Prompt. 4. Delete the object. For more information on the Report Options dialog box, see the MicroStrategy Developer help. Object prompts. reportName: Can be used instead of reportID. When the document is executed, the object prompt is displayed and its answers are shown in the document results. When a report containing a system prompt runs, the prompt is answered. 3. The New Grid dialog box opens. ; xUnit: This column indicates whether a framework should be. Metrics: Component Objects. You see the Save As dialog box. A value prompt allows you to select a single value such as a date, a specific number, or a specific text. To Execute a Script from the Command Manager Graphical Interface. Select Metric from the Type drop-down list. Follow the steps below to reproduce this issue in MicroStrategy Developer 9. Choose “Use a predefined list of hierarchies”, and add “Customer”. The object's editor or wizard opens. How to answer Date value, attribute qualification, attribute element list, text value, and object prompts when using the CREATE HISTORYLISTSUBSCRIPTION script in MicroStrategy Command Manager 9. x, users will notice that this is not possible due to the mouse pointer changing into a "not allowed" symbol. x. Save the subtotal object as "Percent to Total". Add the Day attribute and the Revenue metric. 2. To add a text field to a document. Click Blank Report. This object prompt asks the user to select an attribute: Customer, Item, or Day. It will not indicate that the check box is enabled, but this step is mandatory. Template = oTemplate '. Lists all dependent objects of a FOLDER, REPORT, DOCUMENT, CONSOLIDATION, CUSTOMGROUP, FILTER, METRIC, SEARCH, SHORTCUT, TEMPLATE, TRANSFORMATION, SECURITY FILTER, ATTRIBUTE, HIERARCHY, DRILLMAP, or PROMPT. MicroStrategy Web (. Now, create an hierarchy prompt but before saving , save/overwrite them on top of “Qualification Prompt” that is being used in the Cube – ensure, the hierarchy objects exists within cube. com Format: A MicroStrategy Online Training Video blog. To. 4. Click on 'Next' to continue. To view page-by section of the report, choose View > Page-by. Launch the Prompt Generation Wizard in MicroStrategy Developer by going to File menu > New and choosing 'Prompt'. Prompts can be used to pass in parameters, e. The Prompt Generation Wizard opens. c. Their main purpose is to add flexibility to MicroStrategy reports and documents by enabling users to specify the information they want to analyze. Create a report with an attribute and a metric and save it. To see changes to the REST API in the current release, refer to What's New. Object Prompt Users can use this prompt to add more data to a report. Personal answer: Personal answers are the default prompt answers that are saved for inidividual MicroStrategy logins. Create the following object prompts: Choose a base fact. Once you have identified the basic fact and attribute to analyze, you can start building other. Once the prompts are in the correct order (for the example, the order is Region and Call Center), click OK to return to the Document Editor. Save the text file in a folder, which will be used as the data source for MicroStrategy reports. It takes long time or times out to load the element prompt when there are many attribute elements because of the SELECT COUNT DISTINCT query in MicroStrategy 10. The REST API has been enhanced to support the ability to programmatically view, answer (with specific values, no answers, or default answers), and reset prompts on reports, dossiers, and documents. Choose File > New Filter. An object prompt allows you to select which MicroStrategy objects to include in a report, such as attributes, metrics, custom groups and so on. For example, add a new metric in a report or add a new report to a document. Then right-click on the right side of MicroStrategy Developer and select New, then select Filter. Find the filters created in the above steps and include them in the Selected Objects window. This object prompt asks the user to select a fact: Revenue, Profit, or Units Sold. On the toolbar, click the drop-down arrow on the Create a New Object icon, and select the type of object to create. Add the two reports Report Item Orders and Revenue and Units Sold by Subcategory as datasets of the document. To workaround the issue, create and save the metric with the object prompt via MicroStrategy Web as shown below: ACTION: This issue will be fixed in the next MicroStrategy release 11. Attempts to get the results of a search from the Intelligence Server. . Create Dashboard A with the above report as the dataset. Edit a filterTo specify the expression by typing the name of an object, type the name of the object in the Expression field. Value prompts are answered in the order in which they are specified in the URL. Static element listIn MicroStrategy 9. To add a prompt to the Template definition pane in the Report EditorCreate an object prompt. MicroStrategy sends the Category and Item elements to R via the R metric iii. Create report with any 1 attribute, any prompt in filter, and the above object prompt on template columns. {call emp_search()} where is a numeric value prompt. Schema objects include facts, hierarchies, and custom groups; application objects include reports, documents, and metrics; and configuration objects include project sources, database instances. Drag and drop the attribute Category from the Object Browser into the Report View: 'Local Template' section to break the report into pages. For instructions, see Filtering based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts. Select Link. Use the MicroStrategy Metadata Update Utility to recover the MicroStrategy System Prompt object. This behavior is expected in MicroStrategy 9. This will run fine, the user will not see the object prompt and the report will run for the attribute and report filter prompt. Enter a SQL statement and click on the 'Add prompt' button, as shown below:Description. On the Definition tab, choose one of the following options: To create a list of metrics or attributes from which users can choose, select Use a predefined list of objects. Click Create on any page, point to New Prompt, and select Object. Users can use this prompt to add more data to a report. Instead, users may observe that the tooltip displays, for example, "Metric: Revenue" when hovering over the object in the Report Objects or. Select Display Attribute Forms. Creating a prompted metric qualification. After the attribute form names are enabled, the grid will display. x:. To modify a prompt, see Editing a prompt. Login in with the user created in step 1-3 in MicroStrategy Web 10. 3. When an instance of a prompted. Create a report with: a. Specify what to use as a container object. The target prompt is an attribute element prompt or value prompt. In the Data Source dialog, select Reports. From the list of available objects, select the objects to be used as default values for the prompt and click on '>' to add them to the list of selected objects. Create or edit reports with authoring functionality. x and higher an enhancement request has been submitted to allow for the formatting of the report to be re-applied. x. CAUSE In Test one, when you right-click on a report and select Create Dossier, a document definition is created before answering the prompts and the view template of the report is currently null. Free. Optionally, add default prompt names, and click Finish. If a virtual attribute A is defined based on column A1 from Table 1 for a Freeform SQL report, the same virtual attribute A can be used in another Freeform SQL report even though the attribute in the second report is based on another column, Column A2 from table 2 in MicroStrategy Developer 9. In MicroStrategy Developer 10. Save the report as R1. What Data it Allows Users to Define. A Report Services Document containing a number of datasets is executed frequently and this MicroStrategy Knowledge Base article describes how to find the total number of times such a Document has been executed, using Enterprise Manager reporting. d. 2. For examples of the different types of visualizations, see Visualizations in dashboards. With Tutorial data, create a metric object prompt based off a search object. Also, this provides a more efficient workaround than renaming duplicate objects. Source: MicroRooster. In Design Mode, the Object Browser is shown by default and cannot be hidden. Attributes are generally placed on the rows of a report.