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Thresholds dialog box: Image options

Select Image to replace the text on the report with an image. For example, a report shows the values of open and closed sales for the past month. To focus attention on still-open sales data, you can replace the sales value data for all closed sales with the customer's company logo.

A common use of this option is to display green, yellow, and red "traffic lights" (circles) to allow very quick, high-level analysis of data and immediately pinpoint specific groups of data that need further analysis.

Specify where the image is stored by clicking Absolute pathand selecting one of the following from the drop-down list:

  • Absolute path: The default, for example, c:/images/img.jpg

  • Relative to HTML Document directory: A relative path from the document directory where the image is stored, for example, images/img.jpg

  • On the network: A path on the local area network, which is in a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) format, for example, //machine_name/shared_folder/img.jpg

  • On the Web: A URL to an image file, for example: http://www.microstrategy.com/images/img.jpg

In the box below the drop-down list, type the path and name of the file or click … (the Browse button) to browse for the image file.

  • If you specify the location of the image as a folder rather than a URL, you must confirm that you can access the folder from MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Developer. If not, the image will not be displayed because it will not be available over the network. This network access problem can be avoided by referencing a URL, using the On the Web option.

  • If you specify the location of the threshold image as a UNC format, you cannot view threshold images when you view the report in PDF format. This is because the Internet user account does not have permissions to a file on the network. Similarly, when the Intelligence Server is running on a system account, it does not have access to XSLs and HTML template files if the document directory is in a UNC format. In such cases also you cannot view threshold images when you view a report in PDF format.

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