MicroStrategy ONE

Controlling drilling behavior to affect report results

You can set various options that determine how drilling works on a given report. These allow you to control how other users drill on the report when they execute it, or to preserve your own most useful drilling paths and drilling behavior for later reuse on a given report. For background information on drilling and drilling paths, see Hierarchies.

Most drilling options involve attributes on reports. An attribute is a MicroStrategy object that represents business data in your data source, such as Customer, Product, or Store. For background information on attributes, see Business attributes.

You can control how drilling behaves on a report with the options described in this section.

You can change these options for an entire report, as described in the procedures in the following sections. You can also change many of these options for a specific drill action, while you are drilling in Developer. A Web administrator can also customize drill settings under the Drill Mode page of Project Defaults.