Monthly Archive: October 2011

Will You Be Using MicroStrategy Social? 0

Will You Be Using MicroStrategy Social?

MicroStrategy unveiled Social Intelligence at MicroStrategy World 2011, and proceeded to roll out a host of Social apps this year that serve as kind of tech demos including Wisdom, Alert, and Emma.  The Enterprise...

Testing as Other Users 0

Testing as Other Users

Here’s a quick tip that could be really obvious or make a big difference in your ability to provide support if you haven’t used it before.  It’s pretty common to receive an email from a user...

4

Metrics

This post is the first in direct response to a request from Twitter, submitted by @praneethgoparaj, asking if I could spend a little bit of time on the broad topic of Metrics.  Metrics are of course...

1

Linking Down in Documents

For as much fun as it is to develop solutions in MicroStrategy, it’s that much more fun to find creative solutions for problems you aren’t supposed to be able to solve out of the...

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Embedding HTML in Attributes

Since MicroStrategy is primarily consumed via the Web, there is a unique opportunity to embed some extra value by slipping HTML into little pockets of a report.  While the HTML Container for Documents is...

Intelligent Cube Statistics Bug and Fix in 9.2 0

Intelligent Cube Statistics Bug and Fix in 9.2

There were some new statistics added to Enterprise Manager in 9.2 for tracking Intelligent Cubes.  This new table, IS_CUBE_ACTION_FACT allows you to see (among other things) the size and rows of the Cube the...

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Report Search Tool

I received an interesting request from our Power Users this week.  They only have Web access (no Desktop) and wanted to have a way to locate reports based on their components.  For example, when...

MicroStrategy Mobile for Android 6

MicroStrategy Mobile for Android

MicroStrategy Mobile for Android was released last Friday.  While I personally have an iPhone and no means or intention to test the Android offering, I know the majority of smartphone users are on the...