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Customizing Enterprise Manager reports to suit your needs

The reports in Enterprise Manager provide a wide variety of information for your analysis. However, you may find that the out-of-the-box reports do not fit your analytical needs. In this case, you can either edit an existing report or you can create your own report using the predefined metrics and attributes in the Enterprise Manager project.

Instead of directly modifying a report supplied with Enterprise Manager, MicroStrategy recommends that you make a copy of the report and modify that copy.

You can modify and create reports in Enterprise Manager through Developer or MicroStrategy Web, just as in any other MicroStrategy project. For an introduction to MicroStrategy reporting, covering the basics of analyzing and creating reports and report objects such as metrics and filters, see the Basic Reporting Help. For information about more complex reporting tasks, see the Advanced Reporting Help. You can also click Help for detailed information about any interface.

Some Enterprise Manager reports make use of MicroStrategy's Freeform SQL feature to allow you to use custom SQL statements to access alternative data sources. For complete details about Freeform SQL, see the Advanced Reporting Help.

Viewing information about Enterprise Manager objects: Project documentation

The Project Documentation Wizard provides detailed information about any objects in the Enterprise Manager project. For example, to find which metric to use for a specific purpose, you can generate and view the project documentation for the Enterprise Manager metrics.

When you step through the Project Documentation Wizard, you specify the objects that you want information about. The wizard records information about these objects as an HTML file. You can view and search this HTML file or print it for quick reference.

The Enterprise Manager project documentation is initially available on the machine that has the Enterprise Manager project installed. To enable other users to view the project documentation, share the HTML files over your network.

To create project documentation for Enterprise Manager

  1. In MicroStrategy Developer, log in to the Enterprise Manager project. You must log in with an account that has administrative privileges in this project.
  2. From the Tools menu, select Project Documentation. The Project Documentation Wizard opens.
  3. Step through the wizard. Select the Enterprise Manager project and the objects and information that you want to include in the project documentation. For instructions on how to use the wizard, click Help.

    To include information about metrics or reports, select Application objects. To include information about attributes, select Schema objects.

  1. On the last page of the wizard, click Finish. The project documentation HTML files are generated in the location you specify in the wizard.