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Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook Over 90 practical, hands-on recipes to help you build your MicroStrategy business intelligence project, including more than a 100 screencasts with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782179757
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Davide Moraschi Davide Moraschi
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy 2. The First Steps in a MicroStrategy Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Schema Objects – Attributes 4. Objects – Facts and Metrics 5. Data Display and Manipulation – Reports 6. Data Analysis and Visualization – Graphs 7. Analysis on the Web – Documents and Dashboards 8. Dynamic Selection with Filters and Prompts 9. Mobile BI for Developers 10. Mobile BI for Users 11. Consolidations, Custom Groups, and Transformations 12. In-Memory Cubes and Visual Insight 13. MicroStrategy Express Solution to Exercises Where to Look for Information Cloudera Hadoop HP Vertica Index

Sharing a dashboard by e-mail


You can deliver your dashboard to members of your team by sending them an e-mail with a link to Express or an attached PDF.

Since we only have one user in our team, for simplicity in this recipe we will send a message to ourselves.

Getting ready

In order to see Flash contents in a PDF document, you need to install a separate Flash player (see article http://at5.us/Ch13U7). This is a standalone install, not the web browser plugin; download the appropriate version for your operating system and install it.

How to do it…

We are now sending a dashboard via e-mail:

  1. Once you have the Flash player installed go to the main team page. Move the cursor over Vehicles Co2 emissions, and click on the Share option.

  2. From the drop-down menu, select Deliver.

  3. A page named Delivery Settings opens, click on the To button and in the Select Recipients dialog select your name in the Users list. Then press OK.

  4. Enable the checkbox labeled Include a portable dashboard in PDF format.

  5. Open the Frequency...

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