Idea Exchange - My Ideas posted in Microstrategy community - Edit Mode in Visual Insight Dashboard

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1) Edit Mode in Visual Insight Dashboard:

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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 the VI dashboard level. Due to some changes in the dataset, few derived metrics are corrupted\goes to invalid state. In this case, when we execute that VI dashboard, it throws error and no way have we can fix\debug in VI dashboard level. Only option is to convert it to a document and then debug and fix it in the document level but even after the fix, there is no way we can recover the VI dashboard. Only option is to recreate 
Imagine a VI dashboard with 6-7 layouts. Everything is good except one derived metrics used in one layout is corrupted\goes to invalid state. This simple one issue spoils the entire VI dashboards. In case the same dataset is shared with multiple VI dashboards then it will be even worse. 
Above is just one example. We have lots of different scenarios which put our VI dashboards to invalid state. Most of them actually need very small fix but because we don’t have any option to open the VI dashboard offline or without processing any data, we are losing the complete dashboard all the time.

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