Monthly Archives: December 2014

Deleting objects with dependencies

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about how to delete objects that has dependencies associated to them.

By default, when you try to delete a report that is used in a document, for example, you will see a mesage like this:

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You can change this behavior to allow deletion of dependencies.

To do that you just have to:

1. Open Project Configuration;

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2. Go to Advanced;

3. Check the “Enable deleting of object dependencies“;

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4.Click ok and go to the Tools Menu and select My Preferences.

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5. Go to Object Deletion. This box only displays if the “Enable deleting of object dependencies” in project configuration is checked.

6. Check “Offer ability to delete dependent objects upon object deletion”.

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You can also choose which location Developer/Desktop can save a deletion log.

Now when you try to delete a report that has dependents, you will see a mesage like this:

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You can hit the “Delete All” button and delete ALL DEPENDENCIES OBJECTS. My friend, just becareful with it, ok?

Hope it helps!

God bless you!

Dynamic File Name with Attributes in Distribution Service

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about how to rename a Distribution Service generated file using a Dynamic name.

If you have already configured a Burst Distribution Service subscription, you can name each file using the elements from attributes in Page-By of your report.

To do that you just have to:

1. Create a new report with at least 1 attribute in the page-by section;

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2. Open MicroStrategy Web and create a new File Subscription;

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3. Chose a Location and click on Burst… button. After that, select all attributes that you want to Burst;

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4. In “File Name” write:

{[Year]@[Desc]} – {[Category]@[Desc]}

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5. Click Ok and open the location defined. You will see all Bursted files with the specific names as the example shows below:

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That’s it. You just have to use the name of the attribute plus the attribute form like this: {[Name of the attribute]@[Attribute Form]} and you will create dynamic file names for your subscription.

Hope it helps

God bless you!

Specific login for a project

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about MicroStrategy Web Authetication modes. Do you know that is possible to assign different authetication per project?

You could set Windows Authentication only in Project A and Standard Authentication in Project B.

To accomplish that, you just have to:

1. Login as Administrator in MicroStrategy Web;

2. Open Project A;

3. Go to Preferences;

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4. Select Project Defaults;

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5. Security and assign a different authentication mode for that specific project.

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That it. When you choose Project A, users will have to use those specific authentications set in Secury option of the project.

 

Hope it helps!

God bless you!

Where is my template window?

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about the template window that appears when you create a selected object in Desktop/Developer. When you check the “Don’t show this dialog in the future“, you won’t see that window again to choose between templates or objects.

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The greatest problem is when you check this option in Reports. You won’t be able to create new FreeForm SQL reports.

So, how can we make MicroStrategy open that window again?

To do that you just have to:

1. Open Desktop/Developer;

2. Click on Tools -> Preferences… -> Object Template

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Now, just check all template windows that you want to appear when creating a new specific object.

 

Hope it helps!
God bless you!

Creating Link in Android

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about a quick tip: Creating links for MicroStrategy Mobile in Android.

Sometimes when you want to open a report/document using a link in Android it doesn’t works.

For Android, you have to use the link like this:

./mstrWeb?Server={&SERVERNAME}&projectID=IDPROJECT&Port=0&evt=2048001&src=mstrWeb.2048001&
visMode=0&documentID=DOCUMENTID&currentViewMedia=2048

Hope it helps.

 

God bless you!

Increasing Performance in Web

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about a quick tip to increase perfomance in about 30% in MicroStrategy Web!

It is simple, you just have to disable Web Log. That’s it, you read well. MicroStrategy recommends to disable logs in Web and only enable to troubleshooting a wrong behavior.

You just have to:

1. Open Web Administrator;

2. Click on Diagnostics;

3. Set Level: OFF;

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Change to:

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That’s it. You can increase 30% the speed of your MicroStrategy Web doing that!

 

Hope it helps!

God bless you!

Using System Process

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Hello there!

Today let’s talk about a quick and good tip when you are facing some problems with I/O in your environment.

I once had a problem sending a pdf document using images in NarrowCast Server. The PDF was sent, but I couldn’t see the image inside the PDF file.

To understand what was happening with my NarrowCast Server, I installed Process Explorer  to watch my Windows and see what was going on.

It is a simple program to display all I/O and network access in Windows SO. In my case, I could see that MicroStrategy was searching the image in a wrong path, I just had to set the right path and I could see the image correctly.

When you face problems in your Windows like this, install Process Explorer to watch all the processes and see what is going on.

Hope it helps!

God bless you!