Monthly Archive: November 2011

Best Practices in QA and Migrations 20

Best Practices in QA and Migrations

Todays post was suggested by @lenotooleBI via Twitter.  Whenever you mention “Best Practices”, the first thing that usually comes to mind is Object Management and Quality Assurance.  Any software development workflow is going to involve...

9

Hide/Show Elements on a Dashboard

Here’s some more fun that we can have using HTML Containers.  Say that you want to add just a little bit more dynamic flair to your Dashboard, such as hiding and showing different objects into view....

Naming Conventions 0

Naming Conventions

Today’s post is from a request via Twitter by @timrcase who asked if I could talk about my naming conventions for objects in MicroStrategy.  Everyone is going to have different opinions, and while there may be more...

6

Date Filters on the First

I’m sure everyone has some common date filters that are used in their projects, and more than likely you’ve got a Month to Date (or Month to Yesterday depending on your ETL strategy) filter....

4

Document Within A Dashboard

MicroStrategy Report Services is a great tool for laying out pixel perfect Documents and Dashboards.  You can feed data in from multiple data sets and make it look pretty much however you want.  The...