Display modes in MicroStrategy Web

In MicroStrategy Web, you view the document results and manipulate the document's data in multiple ways using Presentation Mode. You design documents in Design Mode and Editable Mode. Design Mode offers a full range of document creation options, but does not display actual data. Editable Mode allows you to view the data while you design the document, so its performance is slower than Design Mode. More details are provided in the table below.

Presentation Mode replaces Express Mode, Flash Mode, and Interactive Mode as a single powerful display mode. Documents created before MicroStrategy version 10.1 are displayed in Interactive Mode or Flash Mode, if that was their default display mode.

To open documents in various modes

• To view a document in Presentation Mode, do one of the following:

  • From a folder page, click the name of a document to open it. The document is displayed in Presentation Mode by default.

  • From Design Mode or Editable Mode, click the Presentation Mode icon .

• To edit a document in Design Mode, do one of the following:

  • From a folder page, right-click the document and select Edit.

  • From Presentation Mode, click the menu icon on the right, and select Edit.

  • From Editable Mode, click the Design Mode icon on the toolbar.

• To edit a document in Editable Mode, do one of the following:

  • From a folder, right-click the document, point to Run as, and select Editable.

  • From Design Mode, click the Editable Mode icon .

The options available depend on your user privileges and the display modes enabled for the document.

The following summary table of display modes is a useful reference.

Display Mode	What You Can Do In It	Limitations
Design Mode	Requires document designer privileges Displays document structure and placeholders for document components, without associated contents Quicker performance, since document results are not displayed Create a new document Edit an existing document Add and remove dataset objects Insert controls such as Grid/Graph containers, text fields, lines, shapes, and panel stacks Edit and format controls Format Grid/Graph containers Pivot report objects on grid reports Use group-by	Must switch modes to view the results of a document Cannot format all aspects of grid or graph reports, including metric values and attribute headers Cannot format widget Flash settings Cannot use selectors to flip through panels in a panel stack or display attribute elements or metrics in a grid or graph report Cannot use page-by to group data Cannot sort grid reports Cannot use the Fit to contents/window feature Cannot show or hide rulers
Editable Mode	Requires document designer privileges Quickly see the effect of changes to the document Create a new document Edit an existing document View the results of a document Add and remove dataset objects Insert controls such as Grid/Graph containers, text fields, lines, shapes, and panel stacks Edit and format controls Format grid and graph reports, including metric values and attribute headers Use selectors to flip through panels in a panel stack or display attribute elements or metrics in a grid or graph report Use page-by and group-by to group data Use the Fit to contents/window feature Sort grid reports and pivot report objects Show or hide rulers	Performance reflects the fact that you can see all document results as you work Cannot format widget Flash settings
Presentation Mode	Intended for document analysts View the results of the document Use selectors to flip through panels in a panel stack Use selectors to change the data that is displayed in a grid report, graph report, or panel (for example, select a different attribute element or metric) Reset all the selectors and groups on the document to their initial values Open links to other documents, to reports, or to web pages For a report: Switch between grid and graph view Add totals Export the report to PDF or Excel For a grid report: Sort results Move and pivot report objects Drill to explore data beyond what is visible in the grid Interact with and format widgets which are interactive graphs, such as Gauges and Time Series Sliders	Cannot create a new document Cannot format layout and positioning of objects on the document Cannot manipulate or format reports, except as noted