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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

Adding notes and sharing


MicroStrategy Mobile allows you to add comments, notes, and freehand drawings to a report view. Let your creativity enrich the otherwise monotonous information from the BI tool:

Getting ready

We will use the report named 23 Bikes Internet Sales by Month. So, you need to have it ready before going further.

How to do it...

Open the report number 23 on your mobile device:

  1. Tap the action button on the right-hand side of the title bar.

  2. Select Annotate and Share, this will open a screenshot of the report.

  3. Use your finger to draw freehand shapes or write polite comments.

  4. Tap your masterpiece and choose Add Comment.

  5. You can type text inside the box that is shown. Comment boxes can be moved by tapping-and-dragging them around; or even resized by dragging their corners.

  6. Once you're ready to share, tap the action button again and then on Email Screen.

How it works...

Annotations and comments are not saved with the report. So, when you close and reopen it, your drawings are gone.

There's...

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