Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

GLOSSARY
cache A special data store holding recently accessed information for
quick future access. Caching is normally done for frequently
requested reports or documents so that they execute faster,
because they need not run against the data warehouse.
Results from the data warehouse are stored separately and
can be used by new job requests that require the same data.
In the MicroStrategy environment, when a user runs a report
for the first time, the job is submitted to the database for
processing. If the results of that report are cached, the results
can be returned immediately without having to wait for the
database to process the job the next time the report is run.
Document caching generates the document only once—the
first time that you execute a document in a specific mode
(such as Express Mode or Interactive Mode) in MicroStrategy
Web. Subsequent document executions in the same mode use
the cache. If document caching is disabled, the document
query is submitted to your data warehouse every time that
you execute the document in a different mode.
conditional formatting Used to format specified controls in a document depending
on predefined criteria. It allows certain settings of controls,
including sections, to be controlled by data-driven
conditions. Conditional formatting in documents is similar to
thresholds in reports.
control Any item in the document’s Layout area that you can select.
This can be a text field, line, rectangle, image, panel stack,
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