Designing a Project and Reporting Environment

You can use the various MicroStrategy products and relevant documentation to create the required MicroStrategy reporting environment for your OEM application. The following best practices can be helpful when creating this reporting environment:

• It is common to define objects such as reports, documents, attributes, metrics, and filters that are created for the OEM application so that they cannot be modified once it is deployed. You can modify the object security of each object so that it does not allow write access. This ensures that the reports provided out of the box with the OEM application are not modified and overwritten. Users can still use Save As to save their own personal copies of any objects to make any required changes.
• You can modify the folder permissions in MicroStrategy to determine where reports and objects can be created. Limiting the folders that allow write access can require users to create reports in their My Reports folder.
• If you are modifying a project that has already been deployed as an OEM application, see Updating OEM Applications for best practices on how to incorporate any custom reports or objects that may have been created for the deployed application.