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Viewing and interacting with documents in MicroStrategy Web: Display modes
You can view and work with a document using several different display modes in MicroStrategy Web. In summary, you can create and modify a document in Design Mode or Editable Mode, and then switch to Express Mode to simply view and analyze the document. Use Interactive Mode to analyze and manipulate grid and graph reports. You can use Interactive Mode to analyze and manipulate grid and graph reports, or Flash Mode to work with Flash-only features like widgets. Each mode is explained in further detail below:
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Express Mode (formerly named View Mode) |
Intended for document analysts that need to view information rather than create and edit documents. You can:
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Internet Explorer 7 is required for the interactive functions of Express Mode. If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, you cannot interact with the document. You can instead view the results only, as you might in a static PDF file. |
Interactive Mode |
Intended for document analysts that need to interact with Report Services (RS) dashboards. You can:
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Flash Mode |
Intended for document analysts that need to interact with widgets and other Flash features. You can:
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Flash Player version 10 is required to view and interact with documents in Flash Mode. |
Design Mode |
Intended for document designers, Design Mode displays the structure of the document, or the placeholders for the document objects, without the actual results. You can:
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Editable Mode |
Intended for document designers, Editable Mode displays the actual results of the document, while still allowing you to edit the document. This allows you to make changes and immediately see how they affect the look and feel of the document. You can:
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The following list provides some additional comparisons between various modes:
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You can more quickly work in Design Mode than in Editable Mode since you do not have to wait for the results of your document to load in Design Mode. Editable Mode displays the results and updates them with changes that you make, so the performance is slower than in Design Mode.
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All of the tasks that you can perform in Design Mode can also be performed in Editable Mode.
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Editable Mode offers more functionality than Interactive Mode but is not available to all users, depending on their privileges.
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Compared to Editable Mode, Interactive Mode is available to more users and provides slightly better performance. While Interactive Mode does not have all the functionality of Editable Mode, it still offers many features to allow you to obtain insightful information. For example, you can use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel stack or display different attribute elements or metrics in a Grid/Graph.
For more details about the different modes, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.
If a display mode is not available in MicroStrategy Web, that display mode has not been made available for the document. You can select the modes that are available for a specific document, and also the mode that the document initially opens in. For instructions, see Selecting available display modes for MicroStrategy Web.
In addition, to view and interact with a document in Flash Mode, Flash Player version 10.1 must be installed on your machine.
See the Troubleshooting Documents appendix in the Document Creation Help for descriptions of some common issues you may encounter when working in or switching to Flash Mode. The issues contain information about how Flash Mode is designed to work.
Although MicroStrategy Web does not provide a PDF view, you can still view or print the PDF by exporting it to a PDF. MicroStrategy Web allows you to do this easily, simply by clicking the Print icon on the toolbar. For detailed instructions to print a document, see the MicroStrategy Web Help or the Document and Dashboard Analysis Guide.
To open a document in MicroStrategy Web
The document opens in the default mode selected by the document designer. For details on analyzing documents in the different modes, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.
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From a project in MicroStrategy Web, navigate to the folder containing the document.
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Click the document name or icon. The document displays in its default display mode.
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To change the mode, click its icon on the toolbar.
If the icon for a particular mode is unavailable, that mode has not been made available for this document. For instructions to make a mode available, using MicroStrategy Web, see the Document Creation Help.