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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

Modifying the grouping in a document


Our second document has data but it's not ready for prime time yet. There are metrics but no attributes in it. So, let's go on and add some.

Getting ready

You need to have completed the previous recipe to continue.

How to do it...

We start from where we left the previous document:

  1. Click on the Design icon in the toolbar to return to design mode.

  2. In the Dataset Objects pane, click on the Product Subcategory attribute, drag it into the Detail section, and position it just below the Total textbox.

  3. Click on the Interactive Mode icon to run the document.

  4. Much better, we see the description of each subcategory and the corresponding amount; note that the Total is still showing 29M.

  5. Click on Design and go back to design mode. This time, we add the category but instead of dragging it onto the layout we create a group. Right-click on the Category attribute and from the context menu select Add to Grouping.

  6. The Product Category is added to the GROUPING pane above the layout...

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