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Report Services Dialog

Report Services is a MicroStrategy product that allows the Web Professional to design documents. You must own the MicroStrategy Report Services product to analyze data using documents in MicroStrategy Web.

The Report Services page allows you to set default options for Report Services documents. To access this page, see How to Access Project Defaults and User Preferences

Options denoted with an asterisk (*) are available only to administrators. They do not appear as options in the User Preferences page accessible by users.

Fields

Dots per inch (DPI): Specify the resolution in which documents appear n Web. 96 DPI is the default DPI setting.

Documents: Define the following options for Report Services documents:

  • Alignment grid density: Specify the density of the grid to which objects snap. This determines how easy it is to shift objects around a document. The options are Low, Medium (default), and High.
  • Selection Behavior: Specify whether the drawing of a selection box selects objects that it intersects. To select an object even if it only partially covers that object (default), select Partially Enclosed. To select only objects completely covered by the selection box, select Fully Enclosed.

  • Document Width Mode Calculation: This option, in conjunction with the Document width mode option in the Properties dialog box, affects the width of the document, as follows:

    • When both the Document width mode and the Document Width Mode Calculation options are set to Automatic (the default), the width of the document displayed in Web will be as wide as necessary to show all the content on the page.

    • When the Document width mode option is set to Off and the Document Width Mode Calculation preference is set to Automatic, the width of the document displayed in Web will not grow to accommodate additional content. This may cause parts of the document to be cut off in some cases.

    • When the Document Width Mode Calculation preference is set to Off, the Document width mode option has no effect on the document. This may cause parts of the document to be cut off in some cases.

    You may be able to increase document performance by setting a document's Document width mode to Off, instead of Automatic. If you switch a document from Off to Automatic width mode, this may result in slower document execution.

  • Document Section Height Mode Calculation: This option, in conjunction with the Height can shrink and Height can grow options in the Properties and Formatting dialog box, affects the height of the document sections, as follows:

    • When the Document Section Height Mode Calculation option is set to Automatic (the default), the Height can shrink and Height can grow options are applied to the height of the document sections.

    • When the Document Section Height Mode Calculation option is set to Off, the Height can shrink and Height can grow options do not affect the height of the document sections.

  • * Default Document Execution Mode: This option allows you to set the default display mode in which to run documents in Web:

    • When the Default Document Execution Mode option is set to Read from Document (the default), the documents are executed based on the formatting options selected in the Document Properties dialog box.

    • When the Default Document Execution Mode option is set to PDF, the documents are always executed in PDF format.

  • Enable Flash Mode: Determine whether or not to enable Flash mode. This checkbox is selected by default.

  • Allow MicroStrategy Office to refresh Documents after exporting to Excel: Determine if MicroStrategy Office has the ability to refresh documents after they have been exported to Excel. This checkbox is selected by default.

    This information applies to the legacy MicroStrategy Office add-in, the add‑in for Microsoft Office applications which is no longer actively developed.

    It was substituted with a new add‑in, MicroStrategy for Office, which supports Office 365 applications. The initial version does not yet have all the functionalities of the previous add‑in.

    If you are using MicroStrategy 2021 Update 2 or a later version, the legacy MicroStrategy Office add-in cannot be installed from Web.;

    For more information, see the MicroStrategy for Office page in the Readme and the MicroStrategy for Office Help.

  • Use floating toolbar to apply selector changes: Determine if Web's floating toolbar can apply changes to a selector. This checkbox is selected by default.

    • Dashboards: Define the following options for dashboards:

    • Embed Fonts in Visual Insight Mode: Determine whether to use embedded fonts to display Visual Insight (VI) dashboards in Visual Insight Mode. Select Automatic (default) to display dashboards using embedded fonts, if they are supported for the current locale. Select Off to display dashboard using non-embedded fonts.

    • Default color theme for new dashboard: Determine whether to display new dashboards using a Dark or Classic (default) display theme by default.

    • Use natural language to create visualizations: Allow users to quickly find insights by entering questions, rather than manually building out a visualization. Natural language queries are only supported in English.