MicroStrategy ONE

Creating a prompt

You create a prompt for a report when you want to let the user decide what restrictions the data must meet to be displayed on the report.

Prompts can be placed on a report, and they then become part of the report definition. They can also be used in a filter, metric, or custom group.

This chapter covers prompts placed on reports, filters, and metrics. Prompts used on custom groups are covered in the Advanced Prompts chapter of the Advanced Reporting Help.

The image below shows the Create Prompt page, where you select the type of prompt you want to create. See Types of prompts for details on each prompt type.

To access the Create Prompt page

  1. In MicroStrategy Web, on the Home page, click New Prompt.
  2. To create a new prompt, click on the type of prompt that you want to create.

After you create a prompt, you then place the prompt on any report so it becomes part of the report's definition and any user who executes that report must interact with the prompt. For steps to include a prompt on a report, see Adding a prompt to a report.