In the next pop-up window, select an answer. In MicroStrategy Web, create a prompted report. Click the Browse button (. This is due to the date value prompt having a default value set as a dynamic date when created from MicroStrategy Developer. The default levels that you define here are displayed when the prompt is executed. Cache status: Displays whether the report used a cached set of data for its results. Click the open folder icon next to “Load Answers” 4. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. Send Now URL API when sending a report does not pass the specified DATE prompt answer, but instead sends the default prompt answer in MicroStrategy 10. Any report can contain prompts. Symptoms include seeing a "ghost" attribute element in the prompt answer page or seeing no data returned in the. Select the Save as prompted and Filter and template will be prompted radio buttons and the Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answers. Right-click oivmCustomPrompt and choose Create new JavaScript. To create a prompt that allows the user to select the report, in the pane on the left, perform the following steps: Navigate to the report to use as the default prompt answer. Instructions: Step 1. To provide a list of default answers for one of the three types of value prompt, select its check box and then click the Browse (. Dim answerString As String. When you apply this prompt to the report and execute the report using the default answer, the report appears as shown in the following image. These default answers can be used to resolve the prompt. Every time a user sees the prompt, he must answer it manually (if it is required) or ignore it. Next to the prompt for which the personal answer has been saved, click Load Answers. To create a Metric Qualification prompt. Then it presents this data to the administrators, developers, and analysts to help them optimize the performance of. Select the personal answer to rename, then click the Rename icon . Enter a new name for the personal answer and click OK. Dim report As report. SUMMARY: In MicroStrategy Web SDK 10. Value Prompt. By designing dossiers with prompted datasets, end users will now be able to proactively limit the data load prior to running a dossier. If you. In MicroStrategy Web, create a prompted report. Click on 'Modify' to determine how the prompt will appear in MicroStrategy Web. You can use the URL API to pass certain types of prompt answers to the page being executed. Enter the answers in the dialog box and click Close. Navigate to Caching > Result Caches > Creation. Step 1. Specifies the ID(s), type(s) and name(s) of the object(s) to answer a prompt, or multiple prompts: NOTE: The type of the object is '4' for metric and '12' for attribute. To delete all the default prompt answers, click Clear. The logic that allows for handling of prompt answers causes it to use explicit answers in all situations preventing just using the default as picked up from the prompt object dynamically. To delete the selected default prompt answer, click Remove. For example, you can define a prompt as: 'Choose from a list of elements in Month'. You can save prompt answer for a specific prompt and then reuse the answers on any report that uses the prompt; Add title and instructions for the prompt; Set default Web options for the prompt (accessible in MicroStrategy Developer) The following prompt types are. both the report designer needs to remove '% and %' surrounding the text prompt, and the user needs to supply the % signs in the prompt answers. Choose Add Data > Existing Dataset to add data. To create a Metric Qualification prompt. Re-execute the report. He can save his changes as a new. Accept the other default values. No prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted to provide an answer. It will prompt for Country, Region and Call Center one by one in different pages. You can use REST APIs to perform the following action on attribute element prompts: Closing a. Click the Load Answers folder icon, then click More Options… at the bottom of the pop-up window. Upgrade the metadata to a newer MicroStrategy version. Description If you do not want to customize prompt answers when running a test on a prompted report in Integrity Manager, it will use any of the following methods to resolve. Select different prompt answers such as with Year 2008 and 2009. Click the Load Answers folder icon, then click More Options… at the bottom of the pop-up window. KB15734: How to pass a value prompt answer using the URL API in Microstrategy Web 9. MicroStrategy Web allows you to answer value prompts using the parameter valuePromptAnswers followed by the answer to the value prompt. Save the prompt as "Call Center Prompt". To answer the prompt, proceed to the next step. When using URL API to pass attribute element prompt selections to a Report Services Document, the prompt answers do not pass correctly. handleDefaultRequest(keys); default: System. From Preferences, enable the option "Show options when exporting", like shown below. When this qualification appears, double-click to add a qualification, and select ID for Qualify On. Subscriptions created from the Command Manager create subscription outline using a report with a prompt cannot dynamically use the default answer in MicroStrategy. Save the report. To delete all the default prompt answers, click Clear. Only the prompt ID, instance ID and prompt status are returned when an instance of a prompted dossier or document is created; data is not returned. To Answer a Prompt by Selecting Answers From a List. If the prompt already has an answer (a filtering condition) in the Selected pane, you can do one of the following: Change. Click Add, select the elements, then click OK. A solution/code fix for this issue is available starting in version 10. If this style of placeholder refers to an element list prompt, MicroStrategy SQL Generation Engine will continue to substitute the entire in-list condition. Add the following filter to any report where the user wants to choose a set of values to qualify on the attribute. 9 and 10. 4. If there already exists a default answer, we will make the new answer the default, and change the old default answer to be non-default Additionally, any. If the New Filter dialog box is displayed, click the Empty Filter icon. Update application badge with the value of this metric: Select this option to update the badge next to the. Create a source document. From the list of available objects, select the objects to be used as default values for the prompt and click on '>' to add them to the list of selected objects. The resolution server will go through the prompt as following sequence: document level, dataset level, prompt level. An unused prompt occurs when you drill on a report that contains a prompt. To use the fonts chosen by the report or document designer, select the Embed fonts checkbox. The following flow is required to accomplish this: Execute the report or document; Answer prompts passing xml if necessary; Create a subscription and set its. 7. The report is not executed. No prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted to provide an answer. Any required value prompts without default answers are answered with the defaults provided in the Customize Value Prompt Answers page of the Integrity Manager Wizard. 4Watch free 3-5 minutes tutorial videos, with subtitles available in 9 languages, to build product fluency! Start learning. For this example the prompt on the Year attribute contains a default personal prompt answer of 2006. A screenshot of the report is shown below: 2. Execute the document C in MicroStrategy Mobile. The value prompt is designed to return report results based on the data type assigned to the data in your data source. Run the report. For an introduction to prompts, how prompts save the report designer time, and how prompts work with MicroStrategy security filters, see the. Change the prompt selection or cancel the operation. 1. x. When using an Object Prompt with a list of metrics, the metric alias is removed if the prompt answer is changed in MicroStrategyThis issue occurs because the object prompt included in the report does not have any default prompt answers defined. If there is no prompt answers in all levels, there will be no default answers displayed. 3. The ACL you define here is applied as the default ACL for the project and all of the objects within the project, excluding the objects mentioned in the following option. To create a list of attribute elements from which users can choose, select Use a predefined list of elements. x and 10. exe using the command line. The pieces that make up a prompt control how a prompt appears and how it functions. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be provided. You also specify how to answer any other prompts that are not listed. Any report can contain prompts. In the list box type "21. The current prompt answers are used from now on. To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answers required check box. NET): Program FilesCommon FilesMicroStrategy directory. Target. 3. Set the default run mode to be "Export to Excel", like shown below. To display the prompt selection page each time that the report is run, select the Save report as prompted option, then perform the following steps: As of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager 9. Run the report and add both attributes from the object prompt so that they show up in the report objects. Clear any selection in the right-side box and make your new selection from the left-side box using the arrow buttons between the boxes. Create the first prompt and make the prompt answer required. Click Finish to open the Save As dialog box. If the target prompt does not have a default answer, the Empty answer method is used. Find detailed answers to your support questions for your Western Digital, SanDisk, WD_BLACK, or WD storage product. Navigate to the Layout Tab. Using the MicroStrategy Java Web SDK 9. The report is exported in. 5. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. Enter these numbers in the Minimum number of answers and Maximum number of answers fields. For more information, see How to Save a Report. Dim prompts As prompts. 6. Community & Support Search Discussions Open A Case View My CasesCAUSE: This has been clasified as a defect in MicroStrategy Web 9. 4. KB287356: Unchecking 'Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answer' does not clear the default prompt an… Number of Views 2. If you prefer to filter on Fund L5, use any of the above methods to find the desired item. 4. You can only use objects of one type in an object prompt. X, create a new object prompt. Users can follow the below steps to enable caching for prompted reports: Right click on the project and open the Project Configuration editor. You will not be prompted when you run the report again. &showPrompts=2 represents executing a dashboard showing the prompt page with the default answers chosen. To rearrange the display order, select the object to move and click the Up or Down arrow. A value prompt allows the results to be filtered based on a specific value, such as a specific date, number, or word/phrase. The prompt and default answer are ignored since the prompt is not required; the report is not filtered by the prompt. x, it is possible to pass in prompt answer xml as a parameter in the request when a specific report is run. 'Display the default page. Use. Dim prompts As prompts. KB13460: How to disassociate dependency between a prompt object and a Report Services document after the prompt has been removed from the data set report in MicroStrategy Developer 10. If an element is set to be the default prompt answer, it will be linked in the dashboard's definition xml file, even the element is been removed. This can be accomplished using an Add-on. It allows callers to specify the calculation level of a metric. Run the document, answer the prompts, and as seen below, where the auto-text {&PROMPTDETAILS} was, the prompt details will be displayed: Method 2: Using. Open the VI dashboard save the file with a new test name with "Do not Display prompt and use the current answers as the default answers" option. xls format. If you created a new dossier, you must save the dossier before adding an existing dataset. xThe MicroStrategy Web JAR files can be found under: MicroStrategy Web Universal (JSP): {web_root}/WEB-INF/lib directory. See Using the URL API to Access a MicroStrategy Web Page topic for instructions on how to access both out-of. You can add more default prompt answers by clicking Modify, which opens the Select Objects dialog box so you can select additional objects. Click 'OK'. On the General tab, click Format in the Report Details Properties area. Use the same answer from the source prompt; Use the default answer; Ignore the prompt; Click Save. Create a new search object. Call oRes. KB287356: Unchecking 'Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answer' does not clear the default prompt an… Number of Views 2. Ordering prompts in documents. 0. Execute the report to see the prompt again. If you want the report to use default prompt answers, select the answers that you want to save as default prompt answers. As images. Click Next and for the Select Default Prompt Qualifications, click the Add button. It is possible to programmatically export a document containing default prompt answers to a Microsoft Excel file using the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server SDK 9. By default, MicroStrategy merges related security filters with OR and unrelated security filters with. Description. If you clear the default answer for a value prompt and then reprompt the report, the default answer is displayed again. Up and down arrows rearrange the display order of the selected default prompt answer. x preferences page: ASPx:When the attribute element is selected and then deselected from the prompt answer, the elements are not alphabetically sorted in MicroStrategy Web 9. If you select Prompt answer required without providing default answers, the report cannot execute on a schedule. The Attribute element prompt is the most restrictive, allowing users to choose from the fewest number of attribute elements to define their filter criteria. See the links below for steps to. Community & Support Search Discussions Open A Case View My CasesKB32838: How to create a dynamic date filter based off a prompt answer instead of "Today's" date in MicroStrategy Develope… Number of Views 2. 94K KB46695: In MicroStrategy Web, default prompt answers continue to be displayed after saving a document with the "Display p…Advanced Prompts: Enabling User Input. Execute a report that already contains a prompt that is using a Default personal prompt answer. Components of a prompt. Open up MicroStrategy Web and sign in as the administrator. To display the prompt selection page each time that the report is run, select the Save report as prompted option, then perform the following steps:Remove the Report Filter. Clear any selection in the right-side box and make your new selection from the left-side box using the arrow buttons between the boxes. To clear the default prompt answers, reprompt the report, remove all the answers, run, and save the report keeping the option ' Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answers' enabled. It gives you exclusive access to MicroStrategy experts on-demand or on-schedule, as well as access to all 56 courses in the MicroStrategy Education Catalog. Set the maximum and/or minimum number of prompt answers allowed, if desired. Click Delete to delete the selected row. Value prompts (available only in MicroStrategy Web) The object selected in the source (for example, the attribute element that the user clicked on) Empty answer. An Attribute Qualification prompt can be used in an Attribute form qualification. Remove the variable if you want to disable this function later. For instructions, see Using non-default personal answers for prompts. Step 4: The report may look like this:. Right-click the report and select Add Prompt to Filter. You have now selected your prompt answer. If you do not want this dialog box to be shown in the future, select Don't show. 3. This is a filter which contains a prompt on an attribute element list. Click "Data" on the toolbar and the click "Sort. Select the Save this answer when report is run checkbox. With Navigation Bar: Without Navigation Bar: enableCollab – If the value is set to false, the Collaboration. The Customize Value Prompt Answers dialog box opens. Following steps describe the workaround to pass ALL as selector answer to a prompt child report. The prompt is answered by the default prompt answer for the prompt in the target report. If the administrator requires testing the same report. The New Prompt page opens. If the user wishes not to display any value in the prompt and leave the prompt blank, a blank space needs to be inserted in the 'Default value' field to avoid possible SQL errors, as shown below:Click the name of the prompted report or document to run it. Any required value prompts without default answers are answered with the defaults provided in the Customize Value Prompt Answers page of the Integrity Manager Wizard. Select the Save this answer when report is run checkbox. ". Providing specific prompt answers. All the report prompt details auto text codes in the document: Select Document Properties from the Format menu. Personal answers allowed – select “None” to restrict users from saving a personal prompt answer, select “Single” to allow users to save. If you are creating a prompted filter, you are returned to the Filter Editor after you click Finish. Click the a|b button to rename the selected answer or click the X button to delete the. Click. When the prompt is used again (on this report or a different one), the personal answer is displayed. Set up the new search and define the object type. Dim prompts As prompts. Set Freeform SQL and MDX objects default security. The report or document presents a prompt question to be answered before the report data is displayed. Create a second prompt and make the prompt answer optional. These components include the following: Answer requirement: This component lets you determine whether users will be required to answer the prompt or an answer will be optional. 2 HF1, when a user runs a prompted report, any prompt answer can become the default prompt answer if the report is saved with the option 'Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answers' enabled. If an answer is required, a report with this prompt cannot be executed until an. In the Options dialog, open the General -> Diagnostics folder. Platform Analytics is the new monitoring tool in MicroStrategy 11. Have the report with the proper prompt answer delivered to your user every morning (or when you want). The value prompt is designed to return report results based on the data type assigned to the data in your data source. Choose one of the following options: List all elements (no restriction): This option displays all of the attribute's elements to the user when he is answering the prompt. A user can keep the personal answer, or add or delete selections. WebObjectSource wos = webObjectFactory. If the user wishes not to display any value in the prompt and leave the prompt blank, a blank space needs to be inserted in the 'Default value' field to avoid possible SQL errors, as shown below: Click the name of the prompted report or document to run it. 1. Select Prompt Settings page > Advanced Options. xlsx). Next to the prompt for which the personal answer has been saved, click Load Answers. When running certain prompt types in MicroStrategy Web 9. No answer is provided to the required prompt so MicroStrategy cannot complete the report without user interaction. Place the attribute, 'Month,' the filter, 'Revenue limit,' and metrics, 'Revenue' and 'Prompt answer' in the report. This article also provides a solution to avoid this behavior. By default, the first prompt from your prompted dossier is selected. To allow more flexibility, the check box allows the user to restrict the search results only to those. To delete all the default prompt answers, click Clear. Click Advanced in the list on the left. Add the attribute and a metric to the template. Open a prompted report. It will not indicate that the check box is enabled, but this step is mandatory. Select the prompt created in the step 1, click on the drop-down list right below and see following available options: - Use Default Answer. To select the metric (s) for which users can define their filters, on the Definition tab, choose one of the following options: Choose a metric: Browse to and select a specific metric to use. Execute one of the following options: To specify default prompt answers, click on 'Add'. The Prompt Generation Wizard opens. 1, users can specify prompt answers at the report level by saving the prompts as default answers in MicroStrategy Desktop or Web. From the Home menu, select Save As. This technical note documents the steps to create a required prompt that will be hidden from users without permission to use the prompt. Item(1) 'Create the prompt answer list object and populate it with the elements from the filtered list of elements, oElements answerList = oPrompt. KB36864: Re-prompting on a report having object prompt containing prompted reports retains the initial default prompt answer regardless of the report selected from the object prompt in MicroStrategy Developer 9. 3. MicroStrategy Web (. Dim status As EnumMOIErrorStatus. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be. Open the static report in Design View mode. Personal answers are saved for each prompt and each user, but they can be used on different reports. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. They can be overridden at the report level, by accessing the Export Options dialog box for. Here's a link to MicroStrategy's documentation on the topic. If the prompt answer is invalid, no data is returned. From the Answer prompt drop-down, select how your selected prompt is answered. The MicroStrategy SDK allows you to customize the standard MicroStrategy Web interface, and extend and integrate the MicroStrategy business intelligence functionality into other applications. " Click OK. Save prompted report as: Determine whether to save a report as prompted or static by default. The metric(s) you choose for the prompt do not have to appear on the report. Add a filter on the Day attribute with the operator between and set a date prompt for both the start date and end date. Select Prompt Settings page > Advanced Options. For steps, see How to Determine If a Report Uses Default Prompt Answers. Create an integrity test. 0 Command Manager, users may try to execute a script such as the following: TRIGGER ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR DELIVERYTYPE EMAIL FOR PROJECT "MicroStrategy Tutorial"; MicroStrategy Command Manager may return the following error: Unable to find answer for prompt ‘Select a Category’. Select the Prompt answer is required check box. Closed = True 'Create a new report. Launch the Prompt Generation Wizard in MicroStrategy Developer by going to File menu > New and choosing 'Prompt'. Type a default value on in the 'In list' items area, as shown below: Click on prompt and click next until finished. By default, the first prompt from your prompted dossier is selected. Suppose a user has a numeric value prompt embedded. Execute one of the following options: To specify default prompt answers, click on 'Add'. 1 and 10. KB442018: In MicroStrategy 10. ) Step 2. x users have the ability to save their prompt answers. (See How to Save Your Personal Prompt Answers in MicroStrategy for more information. Value prompts (available only in MicroStrategy Web) The object selected in the source (for example, the attribute element that the user clicked on) Empty answer. Next to the prompt for which the personal answer has been saved, click Load Answers. Select the Link to MicroStrategy Web for unresolved prompts check box. To use the prompt answers as default prompt answers, select the Set the current prompt answers to be the default prompt answers checkbox. When you apply this prompt to the report and execute the report using the default answer, the report appears as shown in the following image. Select a default project drill map or click Clear to remove the default drill map from the field. The attribute element prompt is one of the most commonly used prompt types. You can determine whether to have prompts in a report automatically answered when the report is run, using default prompt answers. MicroStrategy SDK provides a plug-in (ZIP file) that can simply be extracted to the plugins folder to view the customization in MicroStrategy Web. Below is a screenshot of MicroStrategy Web and the PDF export when the 'Remove Extra Column' is checked, notice the top portion of the screenshot contains the word 'Metrics'. After the prompts are answered, the document executes and displays the information according to the answers. This method answers the target prompt with a list of elements. The prompt is not answered. As mentioned in Stage 2, Integrity Manager starts with the answer file, as long as you set an "MSTR_PROMPT_FILE" environment variable. Click Cancel, then return to Design View. Payroll Year Prompt Default Prompt Answers For some prompts, a commonly used answer will automatically be provided as a default. Step 1 Run any report containing the prompt with your saved prompt answer. For this example the prompt on the Year attribute contains a default personal prompt answer of 2006. The following code can be used to change/update the default answer of all attribute element prompts based on the same attribute. The filter panel prompts will show a blank screen. Number of Views 10. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be. Save and run the report. PageSelection = EnumPageBy_PAGE_SELECTION_DEFAULT 'Define the page placement option to display all the pages in one worksheet. AttributeID;AttributeElementID^DisplayName. They can be overridden at the report level, by accessing the Export Options dialog box for. The prompt answer is no. As mentioned in Stage 2, Integrity Manager starts with the answer file, as long as you set an "MSTR_PROMPT_FILE" environment variable. This happened with the introduction of support for creating subscriptions of prompted reports with answers as a new feature in 9. Click Cancel, then return to Design View. This is fixed in MicroStrategy Mobile application 10 for iOSIn MicroStrategy 10. From the Home menu, select Export. Click Save. The example given will allow you to select a date, and the report will bring back all dates between the date selected and 1 month before. Step 2. This happened with the introduction of support for creating subscriptions of prompted reports with answers as a new feature in 9. x URL APIReturn a prompt answer from the collection by index number in the range 1-->Count. Select your prompt answer from the left-side box to the right-side box. In certain cases, users shall be given the possibility to re-prompt the currently viewed Report Services document through a link on the document template using MicroStrategy Web. 1, duplicate emails a…In MicroStrategy 9. x. Metric details: Display the names of the objects on the report and the definitions of the metrics on the report. Stage 3: Run a test in Integrity Manager and check the prompt answer source in the result details. For example, the user can answer the Northeast region or 2002, and the appropriate data is returned from the data warehouse. You can now add your new prompt to a report, metric, or filter. The pieces that make up a prompt control how a prompt appears and how it functions. This issue is due to the selected prompt answers section being set to auto width by default, so it expands to accommodate the lengthy and/or numerous prompt selections. Execute the report Specify the type of value prompt to be used (in this example, a text prompt is used) as shown below: It is recommended to choose a default value. Excel: This allows the user to export the document to Microsoft Excel in . You can add more default prompt answers by clicking Modify, which opens the Select Objects dialog box so you can select additional objects. Since the second prompt is optional, make the related SQL query dependent on the prompt by selecting the dependent query and choosing Prompt-dependent SQL from the context menu. To specify a default prompt answer. Step 4. The ACL you define here is applied as the default ACL for the project and all of the objects within the project, excluding the objects mentioned in the following option. Then, specify the expression used to answer the prompt. Put this Prompt inside a metric, as shown below: Create a report and put this metric in the Report objects window. Selecting a data point acts as a prompt answer. Click OK. Every time a user sees the prompt, he must answer it manually (if it is required). Its default value is true. Choose Value prompt -> Text prompt. To delete all the default prompt answers, click Clear. Reselect the prompt answers and then save and close the report once it has run. Click the name of the prompted report or document to run it. Instructions: Step 1. A prompt is created that lists all the project's reports when the report is run, with the selected report as the. Thereafter, click "Apply" and the default prompt answer will be passed (not the empty prompt answer)Parameters Description; General Parameters. Click the Re-Prompt button.