Enabling and customizing report details preferences

1. From the Tools menu in MicroStrategy Developer, choose DeveloperPreferences. The Developer fPreferences dialog box opens.

2. Expand the Report category, and then select Report Details.

3. By default, report details are displayed when a report is opened. To hide them, clear the Show report details check box.

   If you clear the Show report detailscheck box, the rest of the options on this interface become unavailable.

4. To define the size, color, or type of font for report detail display, click Font Options. The Font dialog box opens. Once you have formatted the font, click OK to return to the Developer Preferences dialog box.

5. By default, these preferences overwrite some of the report details properties that are configured in the Report Details Properties dialog box. To use the report details properties instead, disable the report details preferences by clearing the Apply these Developer preferences to the Report Details check box.

   If you clear the Apply these Developer preferences to the Report Details check box, the rest of the options on this interface become unavailable.

6. To display the short description of the report, select the Include report description check box.

7. To display prompt information for all prompts in the report, select the Include prompt details check box. This information includes the name of each prompt, as well as the prompt answer that the user chose before the report was executed.

8. To display filter information, select the Include filter details check box. This information includes the name of each shortcut filter, the definition of each report filter, and the definition of each report limit.

   To display the definition, instead of the filter name, of any stand-alone filters that were added to the report as a shortcut, select the Show definition of shortcut filters check box.

9. To display view filter information, select the Include view filter details check box. View filters are not named, so the definition is displayed.

10. To display information about metrics, select the Include metric details check box. This information includes the names of the objects on the report and the definitions of the metrics on the report.

11. To display whether the report used a cached set of data for its results, select the Include cache status check box. The cache status is displayed as Yes when the report retrieved its results from a saved cache of data on the Intelligence Server. The cache status is displayed as No when the report retrieved its data from your data warehouse.

12. Click OK to save your changes.