MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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Designing Reports and Documents for a BlackBerry Mobile Design and Administration Guide
• Placing metrics in rows: Any metrics placed in the rows of a grid will be
moved to the columns of the grid when the report is delivered to the
device.
Original layout data view
Original layout data view provides flexibility in the design of a report or
document. It allows the report or document developer to use the design
features that are disabled in tabular interactive data view.
However, original layout data view disables some of the Mobile user’s
functionality. The disabled Mobile user functionality is described below:
• Sorting on a grid
• Moving objects to and from the page-by axis
• Rearranging rows on a grid
• Rearranging columns on a grid
Designing large reports for use in MicroStrategy Mobile in original layout
design mode improves the loading time of a report when objects are in the
page-by field. Reports in this data view load only the data for the currently
selected page to the mobile device, rather than loading all of the data at once.
When designing a report in original layout data view, the designer is able to
place attributes on the columns and metrics on the rows of a grid. This
design ability, known as cross-tabbing, allows the user to see metrics for
different attributes shown side-by side. This is illustrated in the image below:
112 Selecting a data view for a report or document © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.