MicroStrategy ONE
Adding a prompt to the Page-by pane in the Report Editor
Page-by is the MicroStrategy functionality that lets you turn a long report into a set of individual pages. The pages are created based on the objects on the report, allowing users to see manageable subsets of otherwise large quantities of data. For more details on page-by and steps to add page-by fields to a report, see Grouping data on a report: Page-by.
You can add object prompts to the page-by pane of the Report Editor. To create an object prompt, see Filtering based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts.
A prompt is a question the system presents to a user during report execution. How the user answers the question determines what data is displayed on the report when the results are returned from your data source. Prompts are an effective way to design a single report that can support a broad user audience, since each user can designate the specific information that they want to see.
For information on how each type of prompt can be added to a report, see the table in About adding a prompt to a report.
To add a prompt to the Page-by pane in the Report Editor
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If you are creating a new report, open the Report Editor. If you are adding the prompt to an existing report, open the report in the Report Editor.
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Use the Object Browser on the left to locate the prompt that you want to add to the report.
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If the Object Browser is not displayed, from the View menu select Object Browser.
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Drag and drop the prompt onto the Page-by pane.
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If the page-by pane is not displayed, from the View menu select Page-by.
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Add more prompts or other objects to the report if desired.
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If you want to see what your report looks like when executed against the data source, and if you want to see how a prompt works for a user, once your report has one or more attributes and metrics in it and you have added prompt, from the View menu select Grid View.