The solution below provides step-by-step instructions on how to hide the black toolbar in a MicroStrategy Visual Insight Dashboard by using CSS code inside an HTML Container – it works in MicroStrategy 10.4. In newer versions of MicroStrategy, 10.5 and above, the toolbar can be hidden by adding the parameter &hiddensections=dockTop to the URL API. … Read More
The solution below provides a step by step guide on how to hide the navigation bar in a MicroStrategy Web Document using CSS inside an HTML Container – this solution does NOT require using the MicroStrategy Web SDK. It is guaranteed to work in MicroStrategy 10.4 and it can be useful on embed analytics projects, … Read More
When I lead Mobile BI projects, part of my job is to rebrand and compile the MicroStrategy Mobile iOS SDK into an .ipa file. In layman’s terms, rebranding MicroStrategy Mobile consists of exchanging MicroStrategy’s mobile app’s name, icon, launch image, and login page with your organization’s using the mobile iOS SDK. There are other customization … Read More
A request I often get from clients and business users when I am working on MicroStrategy dashboards or mobile BI applications is to assign specific colors to graphs based on attribute elements. Following the visualization below, on the Top 4 U.S. Wireless Providers Subscribers as of Q3-2016 as an example, requests like these can be achieved … Read More
A common requirement of dashboards, scorecards, and mobile BI applications is providing the ability to slice and dice them by time periods: Week to Date (WTD), Month to Date (MTD), Quarter to Date (QTD), and Year to Date (YTD). One way to achieve this requirement in MicroStrategy is by creating a Report Services Document with … Read More
As analytics professionals, we encounter several challenges when we develop enterprise dashboards, data visualizations, or mobile BI applications. One of the challenges is selecting a color combination that will captivate our users. The other two challenges are providing the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) our users are looking for and creating a logical navigation workflow to … Read More
A neat solution I discovered when I first began working with MicroStrategy was how to create a metric with a fixed value. I am a big fan of this solution because the fixed metric value is calculated by the MicroStrategy Analytical Engine after the SQL query is executed against the data warehouse. Compared to other … Read More
