pushing what's possible
One thing that has always annoyed me about MicroStrategy Object Manager is it’s insistence to migrate schema objects with even the slightest excuse. In the same vein as Quantum Mechanics, “when things get small...
The other day I had a requirement where I needed to give a single user access to clear Element Caches. He didn’t have a Desktop license, but the permission to access the Caches isn’t...
MicroStrategy offers access to Betas of upcoming releases to any existing customers that are interested. While you can’t publicly talk about the features until they are Generally Available (GA), it does provide you with...
One of the first concerns you may have after scheduling some Intelligent Cubes to update is their growth rate. Each cube is not only loaded into memory, but also saved to disk, so managing...
A common request is for the ability to use an element prompt to choose a month or day, and then based on that selection, choose a range such as a rolling months or rolling...
I had a requirement recently where I had a single metric on a bad graph that needed to use alternating colors for readability. Unfortunately, the MicroStrategy Graph options for formatting a Series is limited...
One of my favorite and yet easiest customizations is adding a News feed to the MicroStrategy entry point. Ideally, this would be the first screen that a user sees after logging in. A good...
I was once on a project in 8.x days where one group of users were responsible for managing the subscriptions for larger sets. Most had anywhere between 10-20 subscriptions, and the largest were in...
Since the introduction of Flash Dashboards in 8.1, the only method of exporting them has been MHT. This format is a container for a web page that keeps all of the files necessary for...
The very first question I received after showing people my first custom visualization was “Can I run it on my iPad?“. Surely, Mobile Business Intelligence is the hot item right now, and the fancier...
