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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

Answering prompts in reports or documents


The report number 38 named Prompted Filter on Products contains a prompt; this means that the user has to choose one or more products before the results are displayed. The list contains some 600 products.

Getting ready

You or your IT team need to have completed the previous chapter to continue.

How to do it...

Search through the list and find the report number 38. Select it, and tap View to open it:

  1. After a few seconds, you'll see a list of products on the left, optionally some of the products may be already selected: the number between parentheses indicates how many, (0/606) in the case of the screen capture:

  2. There are two tabs (All and Selected). Tap the second and uncheck all of the selected elements if any, then go back to the All tab.

  3. In the search box, type Gloves. The list filters all the gloves, check all of them and then tap Done.

  4. In the Selected tab, the number between parentheses reflects the number of gloves that we have checked.

  5. You can repeat...

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