)To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answer required check box. This means that the prompt is not answered—not by the selections made on the source, by the default prompt answer, or by prompting the user. The syntax is: FileLocation is the path to the saved test file. 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. x and 10. The prompt selection page will not be displayed to users. To Allow Personal Answers for Prompts. To delete. Select Prompt Settings page > Advanced Options. The metric can show only value prompt answers. Make sure to start the search from the root folder and to select "Include subfolders". 94K KB46695: In MicroStrategy Web, default prompt answers continue to be displayed after saving a document with the "Display p…To create an object prompt. This document discusses about a known issue that users are unable to answer the date prompt with MicroStrategy Mobile application for iPad 10. To avoid the mentioned issue, follow the provided steps for. (EmpAttID + ":" + ElemAnswers); } } return super. Steps to Reproduce. To answer the prompt, proceed to the next step. Find detailed answers to your support questions for your Western Digital, SanDisk, WD_BLACK, or WD storage product. out. "The prompt is ignored; the report is not filtered by the prompt. The option is now displayed. Make sure that the "Enable report server caching" is checked. In above example the default prompt answers of the underlying dataset of the document remain and are the one that are displayed. Using default prompt answers. All Files; Submit Search. x. If you prefer to filter on Fund L5, use any of the above methods to find the desired item. The following procedure describes how to create a dynamic date filter based off of a prompt answer. Answering a prompted report differently each time it is executed is one way to ensure that a report is executed against your data. Click. Item(1) 'Create the prompt answer list object and populate it with the elements from the filtered list of elements, oElements answerList = oPrompt. x and 10. Click Up or Down to move selected entries in the list. Click More Options. x-10. Set this personal answer as the default (select the Set as default checkbox). A user can keep the personal answer, or add or delete selections. Steps to Create: 1. An example of this is if the user changes these prompt answers to something other than the default for the subscription, when the prompt defaults are changed, the users would not want the subscriptions personalization to change to the new default. Users can save prompt answers without having to save the report itself. Execute the report again > `Books` is still displayed as default prompt answer in the prompt resolution. The following URL API link will provide access to the MicroStrategy Web 10. Click Add, select the elements, then click OK. Select a default project drill map or click Clear to remove the default drill map from the field. Step 1 Select your prompt answer from the left-side box to the right-side box. The report presents a prompt with a list of choices you can choose to define the data that is displayed on the report. In this case, the "MONTH FILTER" will be placed in the filter section:Custom URLs for passing prompt answers from one dashboard to another report or dashboard. '. You can only use objects of one type in an object prompt. When you create a prompt, you can allow no, one, or. A prompt is created that lists all the project's reports when the report is run, with the selected report as the. In MicroStrategy Tutorial: Create a target document. On the File menu, point to New, and choose Prompt. Click Add, select the elements, then click OK. xml, as well as the Event Handlers Reference. The current prompt answers are used from now on. Change the prompt selection or cancel the operation. For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Reports: Adding prompts to a report, metric,. Depending on the answers the user provides, the report brings back and displays different data from your data source. No prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted to provide an answer. Select the folder in which to save the report, then type the name of the new report. Community & Support Search Discussions Open A Case View My CasesFirst, MicroStrategy Developer locates the prompts depending on the position of the reports in the document. From the Personal answers allowed drop-down, select one of the following:. From Preferences, enable the option "Show options when exporting", like shown below. 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. Create a Report Services document that uses the Freeform SQL report created in step 1. See the links below for steps to answer each type of prompt: Click Run Report. This method answers the target prompt with a list of elements. 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. KB15734: How to pass a value prompt answer using the URL API in Microstrategy Web 9. KB442018: In MicroStrategy 10. 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. You can add more default prompt answers by clicking Modify, which opens the Select Objects dialog box so you can select additional objects. Execute one of the following options: To specify default prompt answers, click on 'Add'. A user can keep the personal answer, or add or delete selections. A default answer can allow users to complete report execution more quickly, since they do not need to answer the prompt but can simply run the report using the default answer. Personal answers allowed – select “None” to restrict users from saving a personal prompt answer, select “Single” to allow users to save. The Advanced Options for Exporting to Excel dialog box contains the following sections: This dialog box is accessed from the My Preferences dialog box ( My Preferences: Export category ), and these default settings are applied to all reports in a project. To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answers required check box. Symptoms include seeing a "ghost" attribute element in the prompt answer page or seeing no data returned in the. 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. A screenshot of the report is shown below: 2. Empty answer. Use the same answer from the source prompt; Use the default answer; Ignore the prompt; Click Save. 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. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be. Create and save the prompt. For steps, see the Basic Reporting Guide. Enter these numbers in the Minimum number of answers and Maximum number of answers fields. The Prompt Ordering dialog box opens. The prompt may now be used to build a report. Double click the following ‘Definition’ area and open the ‘Attribute Qualification’ pane as shown below. Filename. Ordering prompts in documents. Sub Button_Answer_Prompt () Dim PSName, prjName, reportID As String. It collects real-time data (also known as telemetry) which is generated by different components of the MicroStrategy platform like the Intelligence Server. SUMMARY: In MicroStrategy Web SDK 10. Dim config As ConfigOptions. The MicroStrategy SDK allows you to customize the standard MicroStrategy Web interface, and extend and integrate the MicroStrategy business intelligence functionality into other applications. The advanced save options allow you to choose whether to save reports as static or prompted, or whether to save the prompt answers provided when running the report as default prompt answers. Description. Click Create on any page, point to New Prompt, and select Object. To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answer required check box. Upgrade the metadata to a newer MicroStrategy version. Step 2. Click the General tab. Prior to MicroStrategy Update ONE Update 11, this field was named Use the selected objects as the answer. x. MicroStrategy Web (. Prompts. It is possible to programmatically export a document containing default prompt answers to a Microsoft Excel file using the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server SDK 9. For an introduction to prompts, how prompts save the report designer time, and how prompts work with MicroStrategy security filters, see the. To create a Metric Qualification prompt. and click Save to return to MicroStrategy Developer. To delete the selected default prompt answer, click Remove. No prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted to provide an answer. Configure how Integrity Manager Answers Prompted Reports. To rearrange the display order, select the object to move and click the Up or Down arrow. ) Step 2. KB18540: How to automatically answer nested prompts in. If you do not want this dialog box to be shown in the future, select Don't show. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager 9. Right click on your drop down selector and choose Properties and Formatting. The Prompt Ordering option is displayed after a prompt has been answered at least once. If you created a new dossier, you must save the dossier before adding an existing dataset. Run a report with the prompt answers that you wish to use for the personal view. Depending on the configuration of the prompt the user can store one or more prompts answers for use. 8. The prompt selection page will not be displayed to users. The resolution server will go through the prompt as following sequence: document level, dataset level, prompt level. By designing dossiers with prompted datasets, end users will now be able to proactively limit the data load prior to running a dossier. You can determine whether to have prompts in a report automatically answered when the report is run, using default prompt answers. Name the personal view and. Click Finish to open the Save As dialog box. 4. Create a FreeForm SQL Report and add this nested. 2. You can create a stand-alone prompt, or you can create a prompt that is embedded in a filter. Remove the variable if you want to disable this function later. 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. Once you have finished renaming personal answers and. They can be overridden at the report level, by accessing the Export Options dialog box for. Set Freeform SQL and MDX objects default security. Cache status: Displays whether the report used a cached set of data for its results. 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. Check the box that says "Enable caching for. Default object answer: A prompted report can have two possible default answers: a default answer saved with the prompt and a default answer saved with the report. 11 will support prompts for end users. See the links below for steps to. If an answer is required, a report with this prompt cannot be executed until an. Portion displayed only (only the displayed page if multiple pages). In the Web Options window under Expression Properties, set the Default Qualification Type to "Select" and the Default Operator to "In List. 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. Re-execute the report. The 'Select Objects' dialog box opens. Next to the prompt for which the personal answer has been saved, click Load Answers. Enter these numbers in the Minimum number of answers and Maximum number of answers fields. Subscribe the prompt answers. As images. The New Prompt page opens. Next to the prompt for which the personal answer has been saved, click Load Answers. Step 2. The prompt is not answered. In MicroStrategy Desktop 9. 4. (See How to Save Your Personal Prompt Answers in MicroStrategy for more information. Dim prompts As prompts. For "Choose from All Attributes in a Hierarchy," "Qualify on an Attribute," and "Qualify on a Metric" prompts, you can also configure how the user can define the attribute or. The default levels that you define here are displayed when the prompt is executed. X, create a new object prompt. In MicroStrategy Web, create a prompted report. 2. Step 1 Run any report containing the prompt with your saved prompt answer. Create a threshold using this metric to. Open a dataset/dossier with the feature to upload answers from files. To prompt for multiple object types in the same report, you must create an. If you select Prompt answer required without providing default answers, the report cannot execute on a schedule. 3. The. 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. The Export Reports preferences page opens. x: "Filtered element. 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. Using the MicroStrategy Java Web SDK 9. Your default personal prompt answer will automatically be selected as your. x This code utilizes the M5TYPLIB. 4. Select the Save this answer when report is. Save them as a personal answer, naming it Southern Regions. To create a Metric Qualification prompt. Determine whether users can save and reuse their prompt answers, and if so, how. Users can store prompt answers and use them the next time they execute a report or define them as the default answer. xml to change this default behavior. Using the MicroStrategy Java Web SDK, it is possible to append the prompt answer detail to the report name when exporting the report to Microsoft Excel. Using the Object Browser on the left, browse to locate your Date prompt, and drag and drop the prompt into the field to the right of Value. x but when accessed through MicroStrategy Office the default answer will display blank like shown below. Users need to read and follow the 3 important notes as condition to workaround. Clicking the re-prompt button and selecting a new prompt on a dossier viewed in Presentation Mode causes the dossier to change to Edit Mode. The prompt answer is stored in the IS tables ( Prompt answers are stored in stg_is_pr_ans_stats and dataload moves it into is_pr_ans_stats). The following procedure describes how to achieve this: Create the highest level filter. Please refer to TN 30086 for generating prompt answers in XML format using MicroStrategy Office 8. 4. To create a list of attribute elements from which users can choose, select Use a predefined list of elements. If there is no prompt answers in all levels, there will be no default answers displayed. Click Advanced in the list on the left. Sub Button_Answer_Prompt () Dim PSName, prjName, reportID As String. This functionality allows users to search for specific elements within the prompt available answers. 11) Open the same Report in MicroStrategy Web and choose "Books" as the prompt answer. User can change the macro settings to change the auto-text display behavior as follows: (Prompt name: TEST日期, Attribute: Day) In editor mode, right click the auto-text {&Prompt1&} and choose 'Report Details Properties'. After the document is exported, the content of the document is displayed using the default settings in Microsoft Excel. The 'Choose a Prompt Style' dialog box opens. 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. ) To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answer required check box. 3. By default, MicroStrategy merges related security filters with OR and unrelated security filters with. Dim prompts As prompts. No. Therefore, prompts allow report designers to create reports that let users change the report content at run. Run a report that uses a shared prompt 2. In the Select Prompt Settings page, click Advanced Options. Click the open folder icon next to “Load Answers” 4. 3. Dim report As report. 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. Use a pre-defined list of elements: This option lets you select specific attribute elements to display to the user. Create a filter on the date attribute. Select the personal answer to rename, then click the Rename icon . To save the current prompt answers as the default prompt answers, and automatically use them the next time the report is exported, select the Do not prompt me again checkbox. Dossiers with MicroStrategy 10. Selecting a data point acts as a prompt answer. Ignoring Target Prompts: Using the Empty Answer Method. No answer is provided to the required prompt so MicroStrategy cannot complete the report without user interaction. When a Report Services document with a prompt is delivered using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 9. 3. Click More Options. You also specify how to answer any other prompts that are not listed. A prompt is a question the system presents to a user when a report is executed. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. Renaming a Prompted ReportAs of MicroStrategy Integrity Manager 8. Use the same answer from the source prompt; Use the default answer; Ignore the prompt; Click Save. In MicroStrategy Web, while creating a prompt, you can allow personal answers for the prompt, if the administrator has enabled personal answers in the default settings for. To delete the selected default prompt answer, click Remove. Target. Select Prompt Settings page > Advanced Options. When the prompt is used again (on this report or a different one), the personal answers are available. Click 'OK'. Dim answerString As String. A prompt is a question presented to the user who runs the report. This method is the default member of the collection. By default, the first prompt from your prompted dossier is selected. Set the default run mode to be "Export to Excel", like shown below. Number = index number of desired prompt answer IDSSPromptAnswer = reference to the prompt answer object. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be. 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. If you select Prompt answer required without providing default answers, the report cannot execute on a schedule. The user can select one of them, or answer the prompt manually. Step 3. Select a default project drill map or click Clear to remove the default drill map from the field. You must perform the following general steps to add a prompt to a document: 1. The Value Prompt page opens. Dim simpleprompt As PromptSimple. A user can keep the personal answer, or add or delete selections. xml under WEB. The New Prompt page opens. When the prompt is used again (on this report or a different one), the personal answer is displayed. You do not have to save the report to save a personal answer; the personal answer is saved automatically when one of the check boxes above is selected. " Click OK. Southeast, Southwest, and South are displayed as the default prompt answers, since they were defined as the default above. KB31103: How to manage Prompt Answer objects in MicroStrategy Developer 9. If it does, a default answer appears in the far right pane of the prompt window. Default object answer: A prompted report can have two possible default answer, a default. SUMMARY: Using the MicroStrategy Java Web SDK 9. The Default Prompt Value page opens. Select the personal answer to rename, then click the Rename icon . For instructions, see Using non-default personal answers for prompts. This parameter may also take the values of 1 and 0, for more information refer to KB35782 "How to force the prompt to be displayed on iPad devices when executing prompted document when using MicroStrategy Mobile App. A solution/code fix for this issue is available starting in version 10. This filter, which will be used on the report, returns the dates between the date selected in the prompt and one month before the prompt answer. WORKAROUND: A possible workaround is to select the default prompt answer from MicroStrategy Developer. A screen appears where users can choose to create a specific type of value. Metric details: Display the names of the objects on the report and the definitions of the metrics on the report. Remove the user accounts in the system and skip the confirmation prompt. 2. Resolve(oRepInst. By default, the General preferences page is displayed. 3. About prompts. For example, you can include metrics or attributes in a single object prompt, but not both. The report is not executed. The default prompt answers will work correctly MicroStrategy Web 9. Your default prompt answer will be loaded as your prompt answer. For the Operator, select Exactly, and then from the drop-down to the left of the text box, select. By designing dossiers with prompted datasets, end users will now be able to proactively limit the data load prior to running a dossier. Click the name of the prompt to open it. When you execute the report in the future, you are prompted for answers again. 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. How to update/change an attribute element prompt default answers using Microstrategy Web SDK. Using the MicroStrategy Tutorial project data, you might use all three regions as default answers for the prompt: Northeast Mid-Atlantic Southeast When you apply this prompt. Save the report. In the Data Source dialog, select Reports. If there is no prompt answers in all levels, there will be no default answers displayed. In MicroStrategy Web, create a prompted report. Click the Load Answers folder icon, then click More Options… at the bottom of the pop-up window. Click Add, select the elements, then click OK. x, it is possible to programmatically create subscriptions for report and documents, answer prompts and save the subscriptions as personalized. If you select Prompt answer required without providing default answers, the report cannot execute on a schedule. Click Cancel, then return to Design View. Accept the other default values. Optional: Select the. Select Filter definition prompt -> Choose from an attribute element list as shown below. The prompt answer is no. Navigate to a prompted report and click Insert. Steps to order prompts in reports. When you execute the document, the. To do this, you can switch to PDF View, which opens the Prompt Answer Wizard. To create an object prompt. You can add more default prompt answers by clicking Modify, which opens the Select Objects dialog box so you can select additional objects. 1. Select the personal answer to delete, then click the Delete icon . For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Reports: Adding prompts to a report, metric, or filter. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. Under Export Header and Footer section, click the Edit Custom Settings button. For example, users can define a level prompt at the country level and apply it to a cost fact, as shown below, to generate a new Cost_Level_Prompt metric that aggregates the sum of Cost at the country level. Put this Prompt inside a metric, as shown below: Create a report and put this metric in the Report objects window. You provide answers to a metric expression prompt in the body parameter of the request. Step 1 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. When you select the Empty answer method, the prompt in the target report or document is ignored. That is, the. By default, this option is selected, as shown below: After customization: Follow these steps to achieve this customization: In the Web Customization Editor,. Any prompts with personal answers saved for the login using Integrity Manager can be resolved using those personal answers. 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. If you created a new dossier, you must save the dossier before adding an existing dataset. 0 inches. To avoid the mentioned issue, follow the provided steps for the same report in MicroStrategy Developer : Run the report and remove all the selected prompt answers. Then it presents this data to the administrators, developers, and analysts to help them optimize the performance of. Subtotals opens the Subtotals dialog box, which lists any. Single: Only one personal answer can be saved for this prompt. ). From the Choose a Permission Level drop-down list, select the predefined set of permissions, or select Custom to define a custom set of permissions. The prompt is answered by the default prompt answer for the prompt in the target report. The metric, 'Prompt answer' will display the prompt answer on the report, as shown below: If the metric 'Prompt answer' returns as blank, remove and re-add the metric, 'Prompt answer' onto the report in design mode. 7. The default prompt answer is always displayed when a value prompt is used, even if the default prompt answer was cleared and then the report is reprompted. Save prompted report as: Determine whether to save a report as prompted or static by default. The reuse property of the prompt answer. Select Any other prompts to configure a default "Answer prompt" option for any additional prompts added to the target dossier in. Save and run the report. (See How to Save Your Personal Prompt Answers in MicroStrategy for more information. In MicroStrategy Web, create a prompted report. Personal answers are saved for each prompt and each user, but they can be used on different reports. Loading × Sorry to interruptBy default, the element icon is displayed on prompt page in MicroStrategy Web, as shown below:The prompt is ignored; the report is not filtered by the prompt. The 'Select Objects' dialog box opens. When there is a dataset cache with the same prompt answer for the one existing only in the Target document, the target document gets executed with the dataset cache even though the prompt answers to the common prompts -- in this case, Category, Subcategory, Item --. Answering a prompted report differently each time it is executed is one way to ensure that a report is executed against your data. Single: Only one personal answer can be saved for this prompt. Add(oElement) Next oElement oPrompt. To Answer a Prompt by Defining a Filter Based on a Metric. If Answer Dynamically is not an option in the list, the Region prompt is not an attribute element prompt. Suppose a user has a numeric value prompt embedded. 1. Create a second prompt and make the prompt answer optional. To delete all the default prompt answers, click Clear. . 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. The prompts, which contain default answers, are displayed in a manner similar to a standard MicroStrategy report. Up and down arrows rearrange the display order of the selected default prompt answer. Launch the Web Customization Editor. This technical note describes an issue in which a prompt still shows a deleted element as the default answerThis Knowledge Base article describes a known issue that has been classified as a defect by MicroStrategy.