I recently discovered a feature thats actually been around since MicroStrategy 8.1 called ‘Links.’  It basically allows you to add links to other reports from a regular grid report while dynamically passing prompt answers.  Its basically the “drilling” feature thats been used in dashboards for awhile now. Read more…

Customization, Web drilling, link, link object, recursive hierarchy

Out of the box MicroStrategy supports passing parameters in the url to automatically answer prompts.  This is a pretty cool feature when drilling from dashboards, or linking to reports from portals or whatever.  However, if your warehouse performance is unpredictable or just plain slow prompted reports maybe a bad idea. Read more…

Customization, View Filter drilling, url