Strategy One

Preview Feature: Incremental Visualization Rendering

Starting in Strategy One (October 2025), the display of the query execution progress is a preview feature. Use the Visualization Load dashboard property to allow end users to view the query execution progress when running a dashboard. This provides greater insight into which execution steps take more time, how long they can expect to wait before the query is complete, and how they can optimize their queries.

Starting in Strategy One (September 2025), incremental visualization rendering is a preview feature. Use the Visualization Load dashboard property to load visualizations incrementally as data is available. With this setting, smaller visualization are no longer blocked by slower and larger visualizations. Use this setting so users can view quick access insights without unnecessary delays.

Preview features are early versions of features and are not to be used in a production environment as the core behavior remain subject to change between preview and GA. By selecting to expose preview features, you can access and use them as you would any other functionality. The official versions of preview features are included in subsequent releases.

Enable the Preview Feature

  1. Open the Strategy REST API Explorer by appending /MicroStrategyLibrary with /api-docs/index.html?visibility=all in your browser.

  2. Create a session and authenticate it. In the Authentication section, use POST /api/auth/admin/login.

  3. Click Try Out and modify the request body by providing your user name and password.

  4. Click Execute.

  5. In the response, find X-MSTR-AuthToken.

  6. To get the current feature status:

    1. Under the Configurations section, look up GET ​/api​/v2/configurations​/featureFlags​.

    2. Click Try Out.

    3. Set the proper X-MSTR-AuthToken from step 5. You can also get this via inspecting the browser network XHR requests.

    4. Click Execute.

    5. Search for Incrementally Render Dashboard in the response body to find its status details.

  7. Under the Configurations section, look up PUT ​/api​/configurations​/featureFlags​/{id}.

  8. Click Try Out.

  9. Set the proper X-MSTR-AuthToken from step 5. You also can get this via inspecting the browser network XHR requests.

  10. Set id to 749902F631724C9FBFB55A619C03727D.

  11. To enable this preview feature, set the status value to 1.

  12. Click Execute.

  13. Repeat step 6 to verify that the feature is enabled.

Enable Incremental Visualization Rendering in a Dashboard

  1. Open a dashboard.

  2. From the File menu, select Dashboard Properties.

    • Starting in Strategy One (September 2025), a new Dashboard Editor is available. If you have enabled it, from the Dashboard menu, select Dashboard Properties.

  3. In General, select the check box next to Enable parallel visualization rendering.

  4. Click OK.

Dashboard Execution Step Descriptions

When the feature is enabled, end users can see these dashboard execution steps:

  1. Initializing dashboard: Loading dashboard definition.

  2. Calculating datasets: Calculating a portion of the datasets in a dashboard that includes dynamic selectors and utilizes live-connect datasets.

  3. Preparing data: Calculating derived attributes and groups for a dashboard with dynamic selectors and live-connect datasets.

  4. Evaluating selectors: Resolving dynamic selector selections for a dashboard with dynamic selectors and live-connect datasets.

  5. Running datasets: Running the datasets used by the dashboard.

  6. Preparing data: Calculating derived attributes and groups used in the dashboard.

  7. Rendering dashboard: Generating and displaying the data.