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As explained in my another post, Visual insights dashboards in HTML 5 (MSTR 10) is the major change from Visual insights dashboard in Flash (MSTR 9.x) Please refer the below link for more details: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8659869250212697370#editor/target=post;postID=119211721674939237;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=1;src=postname In this post, I am giving few specific items on performance in HTML based Visual insights dashboards. Before get into the details, this may only applicable for projects with large schema . yes it is related with project schema size. After moving to Microstrategy 10, we may see few differences in performances. In few cases, you will see better performance in MSTR 10 and in few cases, you may see bad performances in MSTR 10. In this post, we are going to discuss about MSTR 10.x Visual insights dashboard performances and few tuning options In Visual Insights, few activities where we may see slowdown  in V...

In this post, I am writing few important differences between MSTR 941 flash based visual insight dashboard and MSTR 10.2 HTML 5 based visual insight dashboard.  I am writing this only based on my experience and my understanding. I may be wrong in few cases or few of them may be changed in hot fixes or new versions.  Starting from version 10, Microstrategy deprecated Flash and introduced HTML 5 based dashboards. this is applicable for both documents and VI based dashboards.  This is one of the very major and important change in Microstrategy 10. In this post, we are going to see few key characteristic difference because of this change. 1) Rendering : This is one of the major difference between Flash and HTML 5 based visual insights dashboard.  In a Flash based VI dashboard, it loads all data and charts in a single shot. When you run a dashboard, it will load everything in your browser in the first run. After that, everything els...

2) Better Support for Exporting from Document cache: MSTR Community Link: https://community.microstrategy.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Better-Support-for-Exporting-from-Document-Cache/idi-p/292068 Note: Microstrategy considers our ideas based on the votes. Please cast your vote which will help to get this as a new feature in the future MSTR release The main purpose and important reason why we create\recommend document cache is to get better performance which gives better user experience. Microstrategy do supports document cache with different output mode but still I feel few improvements needed in the way it handles the data export from the cached document.  Improvements needed:   Options to export a single grid or graph (Not a whole document or a panel or a layout) in a document from the cache – Without re-executing the document in the background If possible connect different cache output modes. Ex: Use excel cache when user tries to export ...

1) Edit Mode in Visual Insight Dashboard: MSTR Community Link: https://community.microstrategy.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Edit-Mode-in-Visual-Insight-Dashboard/idi-p/291307#.VwwGPp5BbDA.blogger Note: Microstrategy considers our ideas based on the votes. Please cast your vote which will help to get this as a new feature in the future MSTR release I feel it will be really useful and convenient to have Edit mode\Offline mode in Visual insights dashboards as like regular document. Edit mode\Offline mode what I mean is to open VI dashboards without executing\processing data.  Below are few very useful scenarios where we need edit mode, We can open a heavy weight VI dashboards in edit mode easily during the development This will be very useful to debug and fix few errors (corrupted metrics & any corrupted components) Consider the below example,  We have few very complex visual insights dashboards where we have few derived metrics\summary metrics defined in ...