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Idea Exchange - My Ideas Posted in MSTR Community - Better Support for Exporting from Document Cache

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 ...

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

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 ...

Intelligent cubes in Microstrategy

Intelligent Cubes: Topics: Intelligent cubes Intelligent cubes Vs Cache Manage and Monitoring cubes Cube Size and Memory usage Accessing Intelligent cubes Dynamic sourcing Intelligent cube & Security filters Intelligent cubes & Multi-tenant Architecture Intelligent cubes & Level Metrics Intelligent cube is an OLAP feature introduced in Microstrategy 9 version.  Intelligent cube is a pre aggregated set of data stored in intelligent server memory and it will give very quick access to the data without hitting the data warehouse. It is very simple to create an intelligent cube, it is same like a report creation. When we create and publish intelligent cube, it stores all the data in intelligent server memory as well as a copy in file system (secondary storage area -Hard disk). Whenever it reboots, it loads the data to memory from the file ·           Stores data in intelligent server mem...