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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide Data analytics and visualizations for Business Intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136241
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Architecture - Installing and Configuring MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Project Design - Creating Your Project Foundation 3. Basic Reporting - Building Your First Reports 4. Advanced Reporting - Interacting with and Improving Your Reports 5. Dashboarding - Creating Visual Reporting 6. Security - Managing Your Users and Their Access 7. Administration - Maintaining and Monitoring Your Project 8. Quick Reference Tables by Object Type 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Grouping data together – Custom Groups and Consolidations

When new data is needed on the reporting layer, for example a new Region or a new Product Category, it would need to be fed from the source systems to the database. Then, MicroStrategy can execute a query to report it. However, in some scenarios, due to time constraints or because of a very specific and customized requirement, you might want to group the data in a report to create sets, bands, quartiles, or simply to combine Attribute elements without having to modify the database. We will explore two objects that serve this purpose: Custom Groups and Consolidations.

The following is a quick reference table for a MicroStrategy Custom Group:

A Custom Group is an Application Object that creates dynamic sets of data in such a way that it gives the ability to create several mini-reports inside a Report. This object...

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