Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

Report Services Document Analysis Guide Analyzing Documents in MicroStrategy Web 3
Display
Mode
Interactive
Mode
Flash
Mode
What You Can Do in It Limitations
• Edit an existing document.
• View the results of the document.
• Use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel
stack or display different attribute elements or
metrics in a grid or graph report displayed on the
document.
• Format grid and graph reports.
• Sort grid reports, drill on them, and pivot report
objects on them.
• Add totals.
• Resize rows and columns.
• Create metrics based on report objects already on
the grid report.
• Optimized for dashboard viewing.
• Access and interact with features provided by
Flash, such as widgets. Widgets are interactive
Flash-only graphs, such as gauges and time
series slides, that dynamically update when you
select a new set of data.
• Format widget Flash settings.
• Edit an existing document.
• View the results of the document.
• Use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel
stack or display different attribute elements or
metrics in a grid or graph report displayed on the
document.
• Sort grid reports, drill on them, and pivot report
objects on them.
• Export a grid or graph to Excel or PDF.
For
more details about the different modes, see the MicroStrategy
Web Help.
If a display mode is not available in MicroStrategy Web, that display mode
has not been made available for the document. In addition, to view and
interact with a document in Flash Mode, Flash Player version 10.1 must be
installed on your machine.
See
• Cannot create a new document.
• Cannot format the layout and
positioning of objects or the entire
document.
• Cannot format the Flash settings of
widgets.
• Cannot create a new document.
• Cannot manipulate or format grid
or graph reports, except to sort,
drill, and pivot.
• If a graph report uses a graph type
that is not supported in Flash, the
graph is not displayed.
Troubleshooting common Flash Mode issues, page 173, which
describes some common issues you may encounter when working in
or switching to Flash Mode. The issues contain information about
how Flash Mode is designed to work.
Although MicroStrategy Web does not provide a PDF View, you can still view
or print the PDF by exporting it to a PDF. MicroStrategy Web allows you to
do this easily, simply by clicking the Print icon on the toolbar. For detailed
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