Accessing the Basic Report: Foundation of Examples

The Basic Report is used as a foundation report to create the more advanced reports used as examples in this section.

In MicroStrategy Developer, open the Basic Report from the MicroStrategy Tutorial. The report is displayed in Grid View, as shown below.

This report calculates the metrics Revenue, Cost, and Profit by the attributes of Region and Employee. Region and Employee define the level of the report. The level of a report is the attribute level at which the metrics are calculated.

Switch to Design View. The following image displays the Basic Report in the Design View of MicroStrategy Developer. All of the panes mentioned in the next paragraphs have been opened and annotated for your use.

Choose View > Report Objects. Notice that all the Report Objects are included in the grid. Recall that the Report Objects pane lists all of the objects for which data is retrieved from the database, as well as the derived metrics created for this report.