MicroStrategy Object Exchanger

SDK

MicroStrategy Object Exchanger is a custom written tool that allows automatic and fast replacement of all occurrences of an attribute or a metric in all available reports. The formatting of the replaced object will be preserved!

Compared to the conventional manual way (open each report, replace the object, format the object again, save the report) Object Exchanger helps you to save many hours of hard and error-prone work.

MicroStrategy Object Exchange

MicroStrategy Object Exchange

The tool is based on MicroStrategy Intelligence Server API. You will need .NET Framework Redistributable (from Version 2.0) to start the tool. You can download it for free from Microsoft.

I used this tool at one of the German retail customers to replace one of the attributes (Item) with another one (Item Group) — but in over 100 reports! The whole process took only about 2 minutes.

Feel free to use MicroStrategy Object Exchanger in your projects. You can download it here. Just unpack the ZIP-file. The interface is very intuitive. Please let me know about your experience using this tool.

Note: You must have MicroStrategy installed on the machine where you want to execute this tool.

The Object Exchanger currently only supports the metadata from 8.x versions. To be on the safe side don’t forget to backup your metadata! I look forward for your comment, views on this tool.

You can read more about MicroStrategy Object Exchanger at my blog in German language.

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Calling a Stored Procedure from MicroStrategy

Database, Development

I alwasy wondered how one can do it. This is something that I had seen during my employment but as not involved, was not able to recall it. finally found how to do it. MicroStrategy kb search is very pathetic.

How to use it: Open VLDB Properties of the report and changed setting Pre/Post Statements based on your requirement.

Take an example: {call GenerateDate([Age Interval])}

Calling a stored precedure from MictoStrategy Report

Calling a stored precedure from MictoStrategy Report

{} curly brackets are required as per MicroStrategy.
MicroStrategy recommends using CALL statement instead of EXEC to execute/call a stored procedure.
[Age Interval] is a MicroStrategy numeric value prompt that can be passed as parameter to the stored procedure. This is optional.

Other things to do but not for all ODBC Drivers.

MicroStrategy ODBC Driver must be configured to accept results from stored procedures. As per tech-note I found only Oracle needs to do following.

UNIX: The following line must be added manually to the Data Source Name (DSN) definition in the ODBC.INI file
ProcedureRetResults=1
Windows: Open the DSN and see if there is some setting for Procedure Result. Select that.

This can be used to pass parameter to a stored procedure from MicroStrategy too. In cases where multiple values need to be passed from the same prompt, an element list prompt should be used.

Linux VMWare image of MicroStrategy 9.0 trial

License, MicroStrategy Inc,

I was told to find about MicroStrategy pricing by MicroStrategy COE head (more on this sometime later). I just gave him reply, it is virtually free, something totally unbelievable for the actual requester .

I was requested some more information on this. So start taking a dig of something new on site. Notable change on license. It happened sometime back but didn’t post as was not that big. Previously support was available for only 25 and 100 named user, but now 50 and 75 named user licenses are also on sale. I had thought about it in the beginning, and now it is there. :-)

While taking a dig, I landed on this page. Now MicroStrategy is giving a ready-made Readhat Linux VMWare image of Trail version of MicroStrategy 9.0. Great! This will give a good opportunity to end user who run their servers on Linux. To download click here and select Download: Trial Linux. As usual a free MicroStrategy account is required. You just need to use your corp email address to create the account. You need to request for a 30 days trial serial key and activate the installation withing 7 days. AFAIK, all employees of companies that compete with MicroStrategy do not get access to free downloads. 😕

Row number as Attribute

Architect,

This is the statement that one can used to generate the row number as an attribute to be placed as the leftmost column on the grid.

ApplySimple(“row_number() OVER (ORDER BY #0 ASC)”, [ID COLUMN of Fact Table with maximum number of Rows])

Above statement would work for a DB2 warehouse. One need to change the statement for respective warehouse.