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MicroStrategy Object Tracking Tool

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I have created MicroStrategy Object Tracking Tool (beta) for easy preparation of tracking sheet in a Excel. You can customize it by selecting date (creation, modification, from , to date, select number of object type. This toll is still beta. I made it as there are not way to achieve Version control in MicroStrategy. Looking for your suggestion to improve it and add more features. You can send me your comment by email or this blog. Utmost care is taken that this application doesn’t mess up with your metadata. I’ve used this application with production system in past.

This is a read only application. Using it will cause no changes to your Metadata.

Note:  This application is provided “as is” and I disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, with respect to all provided items, including all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, systems integration, title, satisfactory quality and non-infringement. I do not warrant that use of the provided items or any portion thereof will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the provided items or any portion thereof will meet any need or requirement of licensee.

Search by ID

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You probably noticed that it is not possible to make a search by using an object ID in MicroStrategy.

In most cases this should be no biggie. Still, there are some particular situations when this can be really frustrating.

Let’s just say that you are working on a multilingual project and you really need to know what the heck is the German for “Commissioned Regional Sales wo. Externals”. Let’s also assume that Babelfish may sometimes have funny ways of translating such a corporate nuisance. I’ll even go further and presume that there is not a single trace of a dictionary-like repository in your organization.

The good thing is that an object has the same ID, regardless of its project source. After all, this comes naturally with the use of Object Manager.

Enter “Search by ID“. Now you can simply log on to the project source of your choice, type the ID of the object whose name in that particular project you want to know, et voila… There you have it!