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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

Creating your first "Hello World" document


MicroStrategy documents can be considered as HTML pages; they're very complex at times, but still they belong to the Web world. We will see that it is also possible to use HTML tags in them. In a document we can represent various objects, and use data from different reports and graphs.

With the Desktop application we were limited to one grid or graph at a time; with MicroStrategy Web there is no such limitation and we have the possibility to put several datasets on a single page plus images, shapes, links, and HTML code.

Documents have different visualization modes: as with reports, we create and modify objects in Design View , while the users will consume the data in Interactive View . In fact, there are more types of views, but for the moment let's remember those two: Design and Interactive.

Getting ready

Enough said, let's get our hands dirty and create a very simple document. You need to have all the schema objects and all reports from the previous...

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