Report types: Standard and OLAP reports

During the report design process, if none of the OLAP Services features are applied on the report, then the report remains a standard report. This is indicated by the word Standard in the bottom right corner of the Report Editor, as shown below.

In Developer, the moment you use an OLAP Services feature, whether it is dynamic aggregation, a derived metric, a derived element, or a view filter, the standard report becomes an OLAP report, as shown in the following image. Notice that Standard is replaced by OLAP after a view filter is applied.

The report type change from Standard to OLAP is displayed only in Developer. The same indication is not shown on reports in MicroStrategy Web.

When a saved OLAP Services report is opened again, it remains an OLAP Services report—while a Standard report can be turned into an OLAP Services report, but an OLAP Services report cannot be turned into a Standard report.