Designing and Creating Documents

Introduction

A MicroStrategy Report Services document contains objects representing data coming from one or more datasets, as well as images and shapes. A dataset is a set of data that can be displayed on a document. A dataset can be a MicroStrategy report, a MicroStrategy Intelligent Cube, or data imported directly from an external data source. The information in a dataset can include MicroStrategy objects such as attributes, custom groups, consolidations, and metrics.

Documents can appear in almost as many ways as you can imagine and are generally formatted to suit your business needs, in a single display of presentation quality.

This section describes the ways in which you can design and create a MicroStrategy Report Services document. If you are new to designing documents, see Best practices for designing effective documents before you begin a new document.

• Before you begin

• Display modes in MicroStrategy Web

• Designing and creating documents: An overview

• Best practices for designing effective documents

• Creating documents

• Understanding and working with document sections

Before you begin

Before you begin creating a document, you should understand how end users will use documents for data analysis. For examples of manipulating data in documents and steps to perform analysis, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.