Strategy ONE

Preview Feature: Create and Format an Enhanced KPI Visualization

Starting in Strategy One (September 2025), you can create an enhanced KPI visualization. This enhanced version of a KPI visualization allows you to upload your own image onto the KPI to further customize your dashboards for your business. You must enable the preview feature using the following steps.

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 Enhanced KPI

  1. Open the configOverride.properties file in the following location: ..\MicroStrategyLibrary\WEB-INF\classes\config\configOverride.properties.

  2. Add the following line: features.supportEnhancedKPI=true.

  3. Save the file and restart Tomcat.

Create an Enhanced KPI Visualization

  1. Open a dashboard.

  2. In the top toolbar, click Visualization .

  3. Choose KPI > Enhanced KPI .

  4. In the Datasets panel, double-click metrics to add them to the visualization. A KPI visualization requires at least one metric.

    An image is automatically assigned to the visualization.

  5. Open the Format panel to select formatting options, specific to KPI visualizations.

Format an Enhanced KPI Visualization

  1. After creating an Enhanced KPI visualization, click Format.

  2. Click Visualization Options , expand the Image section.

  3. Click Gallery and choose a new image, if needed.

  4. In Layout, choose the layout of the KPI and whether to show metric names.

  5. Click Text and Form and select options for text, shapes, and thresholds including the image color.

  6. Click Title and Container and select options for the title bar, fill, and border of the visualization container.