If both default answers exist, Integrity Manager. For more information, see How to Save a Report. Answer For Each oElement In oElements answerList. The event or action that you want your MicroStrategy Web product to perform. Select the 'Advanced' tab, as shown below: Change the setting for 'Attribute element browsing' (circled in red above) to the limit that is desired for the project. When running certain prompt types in MicroStrategy Web 9. 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. Enter a new name for the personal answer and click OK. For the Operator, select Exactly, and then from the drop-down to the left of the text box, select. Click. Create a report with Customer Age in the rows and the prompt created above in the report filter. Every time a user sees the prompt, he must answer it manually (if it is required). By default, the first prompt from your prompted dossier is selected. Under Tools -> Options, select "Display. Create a FreeForm SQL Report and add this nested. x: From the Prompt Generation Wizard, select the 'Filter definition prompt' radio button, then select 'Choose from attribute element list' as shown. Create a Report Services document that uses the Freeform SQL report created in step 1. Up and down arrows rearrange the display order of the selected default prompt answer. The prompt is answered by the default prompt answer for the prompt in the target. Hierarchy prompted reports show the default prompt answers instead of the current prompt answers in MicroStrategy Mobile 9. To prompt for multiple object types in the same report, you must create an. Create the date prompt. 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. 'Display the default page. Select "Project Defaults" on the left side. (A value prompt is a type of prompt that requires the user to type an entry in a field). Create an integrity test. Dim answer As String. Options in this menu allow you to change the display of report data in a number of ways: Advanced Sorting opens the Sorting dialog box, which you can use to customize the sorting criteria in the report. Under Export Header and Footer section, click the Edit Custom Settings button. Click Next. Step 1 Select your prompt answer from the left-side box to the right-side box. Enabled by default, the Enable caching for prompted reports and documents setting controls whether prompted reports and documents are cached. How the user answers the question determines what data is displayed on the report when it is returned from your data source. In the source dossier, hover over a data point in the visualization and click the tooltip. By default, MicroStrategy merges related security filters with OR and unrelated security filters with. 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. opReuse. Navigate to Caching > Result Caches > Creation. Dim prompts As prompts. Excel: This allows the user to export the document to Microsoft Excel in . Click Cancel, then return to Design View. An Attribute Qualification prompt can be used in an Attribute form qualification. In the warehouse change the attribute ID from `Books` = 1 to `Books' = 2. x-10. This not only allows for dossiers to have personalized information but also improves performance by processing only the. ). 3. The attribute element prompt is one of the most commonly used prompt types. 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. Select the folder in which to save the report, then type the name of the new report. Steps to Reproduce. To include the report in the email, select Data in email. Configure how Integrity Manager Answers Prompted Reports. If you select Prompt answer required without providing default answers, the report cannot execute on a schedule. 7. Minimum number of qualifications – set the minimum number of answers required for this prompt 5. In the list box type "21. Click More Options. Personal answers also provide consistency, to ensure that the same prompt answers are used across a number of reports. In above example the default prompt answers of the underlying dataset of the document remain and are the one that are displayed. Report Viewer menu bar options: Data menu. Click Create on any page, point to New Prompt, and select Metric Qualification Prompt. The user can select the default level, or specify his own level. Execute one of the following options: To specify default prompt answers, click on 'Add'. Continue to explore the two approaches to find a method that works for you. Click the name of the prompt to open it. Then make changes on the report as needed, such as: Change sorting; Add View Filter; Add or remove attributes/metrics from the report; Step 2. Platform Analytics is the new monitoring tool in MicroStrategy 11. The prompt is not answered. Subscribe the prompt answers. /splunk clean userdata -f Recreate the default admin account. The prompts, which contain the default answers, are displayed as in any standard MicroStrategy report. In the source dossier, hover over a data point in the visualization and click the tooltip. Every time a user sees the prompt, he must answer it manually (if it is required). Step 4. He can save his changes as a new. Target. As mentioned in Stage 2, Integrity Manager starts with the answer file, as long as you set an "MSTR_PROMPT_FILE" environment variable. STEP TO REPRODUCE: Follow the steps below to reproduce this issue in the MicroStrategy Tutorial project:To see data filtered in a different way, click the Reprompt icon on the Standard toolbar and answer the prompt again to create a different filter for the report results. MicroStrategy system administrators can modify the SQL script (or add few SQL statements) to delete or remove the prompt answer that should NOT be shown in the EM reports. ) Step 2. 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 report or document presents a prompt question to be answered before the report data is displayed. Select the prompt to modify and click the up or down arrows to change its order. From the Home menu, select Export. 4 Hotfix 8, “Answer for prompt “x” was given in an incorrect format” is encountered when. 1. Clear the prompt answers, and replace them with the Central region. Stage 3: Run a test in Integrity Manager and check the prompt answer source in the result details. When the prompt is used again (on this report or a different one), the personal answer is displayed. This article also provides a solution to avoid this behavior. If this style of placeholder refers to an element list prompt, MicroStrategy SQL Generation Engine will continue to substitute the entire in-list condition. Follow the steps below: Right-click on the project and select 'Project Configuration. A prompt is a question the system presents to a user when a report is executed. For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Reports: Adding prompts to a report, metric,. SUMMARY: Using the MicroStrategy Java Web SDK 9. If the prompt already has an answer (a filtering condition) in the right pane, you can do one of the following:Create a list element prompt for Distribution Center. When you create a prompt, you can allow no, one, or. x will use the saved default prompt answers when executing the report. Right-click the text box and choose the Edit Links option. If the document contains a prompt that is in more than one report, it will ask for it on the first report. Reselect the prompt answers and then save and close the report once it has run. 4. When user executes the report, the prompt appears as shown below:The prompt details for the Category prompt display the word "All," meaning that all the categories are included on the report. Finally, you can choose whether to include unused prompts. A prompt is a MicroStrategy object that allows user interaction at report run time. To do this, you can switch to PDF View, which opens the Prompt Answer Wizard. Choose attribute Call Center and use the Region Filter created in the previous step. Export: Choose Whole report vs. 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. Yes. AttributeID;AttributeElementID^DisplayName. The system poses the prompt as a question during execution of a dossier, document, or report, and the answer determines the data that is returned. ACTION: This interface can be customized as follows so that only a fixed width is displayed in the Selected prompt section instead of auto width. To rearrange the display order, select the object to move and click the Up or Down arrow. Selecting a data point acts as a prompt answer. You can now add your new prompt to a report, metric, or filter. Required prompts without any default answers remain open while optional prompts without default defaults answers are closed with an empty answer. To specify a default prompt answer. Metric details: Display the names of the objects on the report and the definitions of the metrics on the report. The pieces that make up a prompt control how a prompt appears and how it functions. Select Filter definition prompt -> Choose from an attribute element list as shown below. Enter the answers in the dialog box and click Close. Number = index number of desired prompt answer IDSSPromptAnswer = reference to the prompt answer object. Users may decide to customize the look and feel of MicroStrategy Web and remove the interface link to access the MicroStrategy Web preferences. To Answer a Prompt by Defining a Filter Based on a Metric. 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. 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. To Answer a Prompt by Selecting Answers From a List. You must perform the following general steps to add a prompt to a document: 1. All the report prompt details auto text codes in the document: Select Document Properties from the Format menu. println("other event called:" + event. Name the new page prompts2 and click OK. Stage 3: Run a test in Integrity Manager and check the prompt answer source in the result details. No prompt answer is provided to the target and the user is not prompted, either. Accept the other default values. Click the name of the prompted report to run it. 2. 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. Open a dossier in MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2 or newer. (A value prompt is a type of prompt that requires the user to type an entry in a field). Click ‘Add’ to configure default prompt answers in Qualification Editor. An unused prompt occurs when you drill on a report that contains a prompt. 59K KB18529: When sending out a report with a dynamic date prompt in MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 8. Run a report that uses a shared prompt 2. csv or Excel file format (. These custom prompts give you more control than the default edit. From the Answer prompt drop-down, select how your selected prompt is answered. Instructions: Step 1. You can determine how a prompt appears when it is executed in MicroStrategy Web, by selecting a display style, and then updating the style properties associated with it. This area gives the user the ability to rename the report from the prompt screen. 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. Dim report As report. Once the prompts are in the correct order (for the example, the order is Region and Call Center), click OK to return to the Document Editor. The prompt selection page is displayed. Click the Load Answers folder icon, then click More Options… at the bottom of the pop-up window. Enable the "Save Results" and define the folder where the results should be saved. Determine whether the prompt contains saved personal answers, which allow a user to save prompt answers for a specific prompt, and then reuse the answers on any report that the prompt is used on. Make sure to start the search from the root folder and to select "Include subfolders". Choose one of the following: Prompt user. Create a blank dossier or open an existing one. If the prompt answer is invalid, no data is returned. In the Options dialog, open the General -> Diagnostics folder. The Attribute element prompt is the most restrictive, allowing users to choose from the fewest number of attribute elements to define their filter criteria. STEPS TO REPRODUCE: In MicroStrategy Desktop, create an attribute prompt on the Day attribute. Please refer to TN 30086 for generating prompt answers in XML format using MicroStrategy Office 8. Note: Name will be. 3. Prior to MicroStrategy Update ONE Update 11, this field was named Use the selected objects as the answer. The Export Reports preferences page opens. Dim answerString As String. 2. Save the report. For more information about saving reports, see . NET): Program FilesCommon FilesMicroStrategy directory. )To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answer required check box. 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. The resolution server will go through the prompt as following sequence: document level, dataset level, prompt level. This technical note documents the steps to create a required prompt that will be hidden from users without permission to use the prompt. That is, the. 1. Click Export. For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Reports: Adding prompts to a report, metric, or filter. 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. 3. 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. x URL API Using the MicroStrategy Web URL API, it is possible to execute a report services document and indicate that the default prompt answers be used automatically. Using a new metric which is created with a value prompt, users can view their. On the New JavaScript Wizard, click Next and Finish. No answer is provided to the required prompt so MicroStrategy cannot complete the report without user interaction. Ordering prompts in documents. The Available area on the left displays the items that belong to the attribute you chose for this prompt. A prompt is created that lists all the project's reports when the report is run, with the selected report as the. 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. Give the link a name. In the Recipients Browser Dialog Box, select one or more contacts. An Attribute Qualification prompt can be used in an Attribute form qualification. Make sure that the "Enable report server caching" is checked. Subscriptions personalization after changing the prompts default:To determine whether a report uses default prompt answers. However, if users save with 'Prompts' option, then when the report is re-run, users will be prompted again to select the Attribute Elements. Select the personal answer to rename, then click the Rename icon . From the Data menu, choose Prompt Ordering. A comprehensive list of event names and IDs can be found in events. Value Prompt. evt. Determine whether users can save and reuse their prompt answers, and if so, how. Select the Link to MicroStrategy Web for unresolved prompts check box. Optional: Select the. Select your prompt answer from the left-side box to the right-side box. To prompt for multiple object types in the same report, you must create an. Southeast, Southwest, and South are displayed as the default prompt answers, since they were defined as the default above. The saved prompt answer is associated with your account and will be applied to all reports that use this prompt. The current prompt answers are used from now on. 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. It will not indicate that the check box is enabled, but this step is mandatory. Select a list of attributes as the default prompt answer, as shown below: Create a new report and place the prompt created above into the report filter. 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. If you. Click. 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. x - 10. See the links below for steps to answer each type of prompt: Click Run Report. Click OK. Optional: Select the Save this answer when the report is run checkbox. 4. 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 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. Dim prompt As prompt. Execute the report to see the prompt again. 1. Cache status: Displays whether the report used a cached set of data for its results. Step 3. Sub Button_Answer_Prompt () Dim PSName, prjName, reportID As String. If the prompt is required, the prompt is still executed when a user clicks this link, since a prompt answer must be provided. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. Use a pre-defined list of elements: This option lets you select specific attribute elements to display to the user. This method is the default member of the collection. They can be overridden at the report level, by accessing the Export Options dialog box for. To create an object prompt. The 'Select Objects' dialog box opens. The default prompt answer can be found at the bottom of the value prompt if the prompt has a default answer in MicroStrategy Web Universal 8. Go to the Data menu and select Re-prompt. Once you have finished deleting personal answers and answering prompts, click Run Report or Run Document. Put this Prompt inside a metric, as shown below: Create a report and put this metric in the Report objects window. Prior to MicroStrategy Update ONE Update 11, this field was named Use the selected objects as the answer. Change the default answer of the prompt created in step 1 to Movies. Remove deletes the selected default prompt answer. config. Subscriptions created from the Command Manager create subscription outline using a report with a prompt cannot dynamically use the default answer in MicroStrategy. Select the prompt to modify and click the up or down arrows to change. 1 iOS Update 4. Select the personal answer to delete, then click the Delete icon . Execute the report again > `Books` is still displayed as default prompt answer in the prompt resolution. Then, specify the expression used to answer the prompt. Click 'OK'. For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Reports: Adding prompts to a report, metric, or filter. 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. This is fixed in MicroStrategy Mobile application 10 for iOSIn MicroStrategy 10. By default, this executable is located in C:Program FilesMicroStrategyIntegrity Manager. Create a second prompt and make the prompt answer optional. If the New Filter dialog box is displayed, click the Empty Filter icon. Then click "Run Report". 4. When there are multiple prompt answers,. Click the name of the prompted report or document to run it. On Parent Document, see image below, there is a text box containing a hyperlink to pass selector answers (Month and Quarter) to a Child Report with Value Prompt (Month. To require that the user answer the prompt at run time, select the Prompt answer required check box. To rearrange the display order, select the object to move and click the Up or Down arrow. Prompt details: Display the name of each prompt on the report, as well as the prompt answer that the user chose before the report was executed. Clear deletes all the default prompt answers. Click the name of the prompt to open it. From the Home menu, select Export, and then select one of the following export formats: PDF: Export the report to an Adobe PDF file. x, the prompt on the document displays the default answers even though the user has selected prompt answers in the distribution list. 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. A prompt is similar to a filter; both are applied at runtime and customize the. These are prompts that are created as the result of an answer to one of the original prompts in the target. 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). KB15734: How to pass a value prompt answer using the URL API in Microstrategy Web 9. Run the report and your default prompt answer will be saved. Your default personal prompt answer will automatically be selected as your prompt answer. Your default personal prompt answer will automatically be selected as your. 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. 4. You can use REST APIs to perform the following action on attribute element prompts: Closing a. In above example the default prompt answers of the underlying dataset of the document remain and are the one that are displayed. Enter these numbers in the Minimum number of answers and Maximum number of answers fields. The New Prompt page opens. 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. Quoting from that page: The parameter elementsPromptAnswers specifies the answer to a single element prompt or multiple element prompts, with each individual prompt answer in the form of. Definition) oPrompt = oRes. Now offering. Open the static report in Design View mode. By default, this option is selected, as shown below: After customization: Follow these steps to achieve this customization: In the Web Customization Editor,. Upgrade the metadata to a newer MicroStrategy version. You also specify how to answer any other prompts that are not listed. If the dataset in a document has a prompt in it, such as for the Region attribute or the Year attribute on which to report, a user is prompted the first time he or she views the document in PDF View. Yes: No: The report is not executed. 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. MicroStrategy Web allows you to answer value prompts using the parameter valuePromptAnswers followed by the answer to the value prompt. 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. The behavior of the normal placeholder syntax #x is unchanged. Select Any other prompts to configure a default "Answer prompt" option for any additional prompts added to the target dossier in. 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. x-10. The following procedure describes how to create a dynamic date filter based off of a prompt answer. He can save his changes as a new. Use a pre-defined list of elements: This option lets you select specific attribute elements to display to the user. 1, users can specify prompt answers at the report level by saving the prompts as default answers in MicroStrategy Developer or Web. When using URL API to pass attribute element prompt selections to a Report Services Document, the prompt answers do not pass correctly. Create a FreeForm SQL Report and add this nested prompt into it. A possible workaround is to select the default prompt answer from MicroStrategy Developer. Create a filter on the date attribute. Steps to order prompts in reports. Click. Users can follow the below steps to enable caching for prompted reports: Right click on the project and open the Project Configuration editor. The prompt answer is no. To delete the selected default prompt answer, click Remove. Empty answer. Execute the report and answer the prompt. How to update/change an attribute element prompt default answers using Microstrategy Web SDK. WebObjectSource wos = webObjectFactory. x. Click 'OK'. The MicroStrategy SDK allows you to customize the standard MicroStrategy Web interface, and extend and integrate the MicroStrategy business intelligence functionality into other applications. x and 10. 1. The default prompt answers will work correctly MicroStrategy Web 9. This is a filter which contains a prompt on an attribute element list. 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. Instructions: 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. Click Cancel, then return to Design View. Open a prompted report. Set the maximum and/or minimum number of prompt answers. Dim report As report. MicroStrategy SDK provides a plug-in (ZIP file) that can simply be extracted to the plugins folder to view the customization in MicroStrategy Web. Dim config As ConfigOptions. Save the prompt as "Call Center Prompt". x: To modify this information on the prompt page, edit PromptObjectLayout. Here's a link to MicroStrategy's documentation on the topic. x: "Filtered element. Personal answers allow a user to save prompt answers for a specific prompt, and then reuse the answers on any report that uses a prompt. Number of Views 10. In the Advanced Prompt Options dialog box, select or clear the check box to enable or disable a type of prompt resolution logic. On the Welcome page, select Value prompt, then click Next. Click Save and Close to save your filter and close the Filter Editor. 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. KB31103: How to manage Prompt Answer objects in MicroStrategy Developer 9. 4Watch free 3-5 minutes tutorial videos, with subtitles available in 9 languages, to build product fluency! Start learning. The prompt object is incomplete by design. You can specify a minimum value even if you do not specify a maximum value. Add one attribute to the rows and one attribute to the columns. 4. Because element prompt answers are matched with prompts using the AttributeID, the order of the prompt answers does not determine the order in which prompts are answered. The metric(s) you choose for the prompt do not have to appear on the report. This can be accomplished by setting execution flag EnumDSSXMLExecutionFlags. Answer the prompts on the prompt selection page. 11 will support prompts for end users. In Splunk Enterprise 7. 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. With Navigation Bar: Without Navigation Bar: enableCollab – If the value is set to false, the Collaboration. You can set this personal answer as the default, so that it displays when you are presented with this prompt again, either on this report or another. Dim prompts As prompts. If an answer is required, a report with this. Create the Filter. 4. To confirm if the blank selector is tied to an invalid warehouse element, users can search the Definition XML file in the Flash debugger window (CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + D) for the previous attribute. Click Save. A prompt allows a user to provide an answer to restrict or filter data during report execution. If you want the report to use default prompt answers, select the answers that you want to save as default prompt answers. Click More Options. No prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted to provide an answer. For information on how required prompt answers, default answers, and schedules interact, see Prompts in scheduled reports. 4.