Making Reports Accessible

To distribute reports, you place the reports in a specific folder so that other users can access them. Reports saved in the Reports folder under the Public Objects folder can be viewed by other users on the system. A Web user can navigate to Shared Reports and run those reports by clicking them. MicroStrategy Developer users can navigate to reports in the Public Objects\Reports folder and execute them by double-clicking them.

To save reports that are frequently used to create new reports, place the reports in the Reports folder under Object Templates. They are displayed as templates on which to base a new report, when a MicroStrategy Web user clicks Create New Reports or a MicroStrategy Developer user selects New, then Reports.

The reports and folders described above are not special in any way except that they are available for other users to access.

To view the Object Templates folder, select Preferences from the Tools menu. Expand Developer, and then select Browsing. Select Display Hidden Objects, and click OK until you are returned to MicroStrategy Developer. For more information on object templates, see Re-Using Objects Via Shortcuts and Object Templates .