Basic Reporting - Building Your First Reports

After learning about the MicroStrategy Project foundation and the main types of objects, it is time to build your first Report. To accomplish this, it is necessary to learn a few new concepts and some additional objects. This chapter will introduce you to the Public Objects, also known as Application Objects. Then we will build some basic Public Objects, including a Report, Filters, and Metrics. We will end this chapter with some fundamental Report manipulations.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Understanding MicroStrategy Public Objects
• Explaining MicroStrategy Reports and how to create one
• Explaining MicroStrategy Templates and how to create one
• Explaining MicroStrategy Filters and how to create one
• Explaining MicroStrategy Metrics and how to create one
• Performing Report manipulations

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