Creating Training Videos
A classical problem is that you launch your BI initiative and do lots of hands on training and send your analysts out into the world. They’ll retain some small fraction of what you’ve shown...
Monthly Archive: July 2011
Extranet Project Filter
One nice feature with MicroStrategy Web is that you can point multiple web instances to a single IServer. For example, if you have separate server implementations for Intranet and Extranet sites, you can manage...
Managing Job Priority with Report Cost
In my previous post, Managing Job Prioritization, I discussed different methods and reasons for handling multiple requests with limited resources. Specifically, scenarios where you wouldn’t want to run reports “First In First Out”, but...
Removing Sections of a Report via URL API
While working with the Web SDK to try to make a small customization, I stumbled on a pretty useful set of URL API codes that allow you to quickly modify the Report Page by...
MicroStrategy Gateway and MicroStrategy Cloud
At last week’s MicroStrategy World Europe event in Monte Carlo, MicroStrategy announced two new enterprise products. MicroStrategy Gateway integrates with Facebook and allows you to easily query and analyze against the richest customer information...
Landing Page Part 2: Dynamic User Report Links
Following up on the post Creating a Portal Style Landing Page, you may want to add a little bit of dynamic flair to the page. While you may or may not agree with the...
Building a MicroStrategy Site Map
I once worked on a very large projet where there were so many users and reports, that the team decided to build and maintain a Site Map. This provided users with the ability to...
Google Map Widget
One of the eagerly anticipated features added to 9.2 was the addition of an out of the box Google Map Widget. Well, not technically out of the box, but at least a provided plugin...
Automatic Project Login Web Addon
I’ve noticed that in my experience, most users log into a single project. Either because there’s only one project in the environment, or because the projects are specific to their department or function and...
Changes to Object IDs in 9.2
While testing my 9.2.1 upgrade, I encountered quite a surprise. It seems that in their continued effort to increase the performance of the metadata, MicroStrategy changed the way they store Object IDs, at least...