MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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Designing Reports and Documents for iOS and Android Devices Mobile Design and Administration Guide
To create a value prompt
1 On the MicroStrategy Web home page, click Create Prompt. The Create
Prompt page opens, with a list of the types of prompts you can create.
Click Value Prompt.
2 Specify the type of value prompt, making your selection based on the
table above:
• Date and Time prompt: This prompt lets users filter for data related
to either a specific date or a range of dates.
• Numeric prompt: This prompt lets users filter numeric data, usually
based on a metric.
• Text prompt: This prompt lets users filter text data, usually based on
attribute forms.
• Big Decimal prompt: This prompt lets users filter data based on a big
decimal value for a metric.
3 Click the General tab.
4 Specify a title and description for the prompt in the Title and
Instructions fields.
To restrict the prompt answers
5 To require users to answer the prompt before running the report, select
the Prompt answer is required check box.
6 To set the maximum and minimum values that can be entered by the
user, select the Minimum value and Maximum value check boxes and
type a value in the respective fields. You can specify a minimum value
even if you do not specify a maximum value.
7 To determine whether users can save and reuse their prompt answers,
from the Personal answers allowed drop-down list, select one of the
following:
• None: Users cannot save and reuse prompt answers.
• Single: Users can save and reuse only one prompt answer.
• Multiple: Users can save and reuse multiple prompt answers.
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