MicroStrategy ONE
Select Objects Dialog Box
You can use the Select Objects dialog box to choose from a list of the objects, such as attributes and metrics. For example, if you are creating a Metric Qualification prompt, you can select the metrics that users choose from when they respond to the prompt.
To Choose Objects Using the Select Objects Dialog Box
- Do one of the following:
- To browse to the location of the object you want, select the name of a folder from the first drop-down list. Objects and folders in the selected location are displayed in a list.
To search for an object, type the name of the object in the search field and click the Search icon. The list displays objects with names that match the search criteria. The search is not case sensitive.
You can search for objects beginning with specific letters, objects that match a search term exactly, and so on. Do one or more of the following:
- To
search for objects beginning with specific letters, type the
letters you want to search for, followed by an asterisk (
*). For example, to find objects beginning with Emp, typeEmp*. Employee and Employee Age are displayed. - To
search for objects ending with specific letters, type an asterisk
(
*), followed by the letters you want to search for. For example, to find objects ending with Center, type*center. Distribution Center and Call Center are displayed. - To
search for objects beginning and ending with specific letters,
type the letters you want to search for, with an asterisk
(
*) between the beginning and ending letters. For example, to find objects that begin with customer and end with y, typecustomer*y. Customer Country and Customer City are displayed. - To
search for objects that match your search term exactly, type
the search term in double quotes (
""). For example, to find the Customer State attribute, type"Customer State". Only Customer State is displayed, not Customer City or Customer Country. - To
search for objects that match a search term with a specific
number of variable characters, type the term you want to search
for, with a question mark (
?) representing each character you want to leave open for the search. For example, to find objects that start with three letters followed by Revenue Per Customer, type??? revenue per customer. Min Revenue Per Customer and Avg Revenue Per Customer are displayed, but not Std Dev Revenue Per Customer. Each question mark (?) represents a single character. To search for objects without a specific number of characters, use an asterisk (*) instead.
- To
search for objects beginning with specific letters, type the
letters you want to search for, followed by an asterisk (
- Do one of the following:
- If only the Available list is displayed, select an object from the Available list.
If the Available list and the Selected list are displayed, select the objects from the Available list and click the Add icon to move them to the Selected list. You can select multiple objects by pressing the CTRL key or the SHIFT key while selecting the objects.
If you are working with a prompt, how you select an attribute depends on the type of prompt and the type of display, as described below:
- If attributes are not underlined, click an attribute to select it. (You may need to browse for the attribute that you want, by expanding folders.)
- If attributes are underlined, clicking an attribute drills to the next level (such as Year down to Quarter). To select an attribute, hover over the attribute to highlight it, and then double-click in the highlighted area.
To remove items from the Selected list, click the Remove icon. You can also click the Add All icon to add all the objects from the Available list to the Selected list, and click the Remove All icon to remove all objects from the Selected list.