MicroStrategy URL API

I am currently doing a lot of URL API work.

So, as a reference, here is a link to the MSTR documentation:

https://lw.microstrategy.com/msdz/msdl/analyticsenterprise/docs/mergedProjects/websdk/topics/urlapi/URL_API.htm

Where did that join condition come from?

Being a consultant, I see many different MSTR implementations and the following issue pops up ever so often.

A report that always works, suddenly... doesn't.

After checking the change log (no changes were made to the report) and making sure there is data in the warehouse, I find an interesting addition to the report SQL.
Where it was always:

SELECT a1.day
FROM
Fact a1
join LU_Date a2
on a1.day = a2.day

now it is...

SELECT a1.day
FROM
Fact a1
join LU_Date a2
on a1.day = a2.day 
and a1.deliverydate = a2.day

Where did the additional join condition come from?

iPad Reset URL

I don't have to reset my MSTR iPad app often, but every time I do, I have to do a search for the reset url.

http://www2.microstrategy.com/webteam/m-reset/

Open the link above on your mobile device and tap on the big blue button

Enable Google Map Widget on Web

These steps are for getting Google Maps to work on DHTML 9.X

Although there are many blogs and posts on this topic, I have had to do this so often that I decided to post my steps anyway:

Level Metric Formulas

When creating a level metric on the fly (Derived metric inside a report), there is some syntax you need to know for the different grouping and filtering options.
The table bellow shows the different options:

Using Photo Uploader widget

After playing around with the photo uploader widget for a while, I decided to document the procedure I used for posterity...

Trigger MicroStrategy Events from ETL

Use Case:

You have multiple MicroStrategy iCubes that you want to be able to refresh from your ETL process, which would allow you to refresh them only when certain criteria have been met (like after data load has been successfully completed)

Using the Command Manager tool you could refresh each cube separately, but it might be easier to have all cubes refresh when a specific Event is triggered.

iPad Event URLs

I just want to post this, because I always need the event codes at different clients, then always end up having to search for it.

Info window popup from image: https://resource.microstrategy.com/support/Authoring/DisplayTN.aspx?tnkey=36031&formatted=1

Panel Selector: https://resource.microstrategy.com/support/Authoring/DisplayTN.aspx?tnkey=40581&formatted=1

For Panel Selector in Web see:

For express mode:
TN45218F

or DHTML modes:
TN42551

What DSN is my iServer connecting to?

The Problem:

• You have multiple Metadata DSNs setup on your server
• Now you need to find out which one your iServer is connecting to

Collation Conflict Error

We got the following error at one of our clients:

Report: Status: Execution failed Error: SQL Generation CompleteQueryEngine encountered error: Execute Query failed. Error type: Odbc error. Odbc operation attempted: SQLExecDirect. [42000:468: on SQLHANDLE] ..... Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS"

This error occurred on one of our reports after we switched our DW database to a different server.
We are running on MSSQL 2008 R2.

Advanced Custom Grouping based on Prompt

How do you display prompted elements on a report, and at the same time display all those not selected as a single Element called "Other"

Display all days to a specified day

A Bit of a confusing title I know. I found it quite interesting once I figured out what the technical note was talking about.

TN: 13932 shows how you can display all days in a month up until a single filtered day, instead of having to use a "between" or "multi value" filter.

Not a function that I'm using currently, but it might be useful in the future, or might be a good approach to use on a different problem.

Setup MicroStrategy on your BlackBerry

First off, I'm using a BB Bold 9700. Got it working on there, so now I want to do it from scratch on a Bold 9000 and see if I can document the process.

Steps I'm covering in this post:

1. Make MSTR Mobile Client available for download
2. Connect to Intelligence server