Creating and saving objects

Before you create a report to display your business data, you must have objects to place on the report. These objects define what business data will be displayed in any report on which the objects are placed.

In MicroStrategy, you use editors to create and save the report-related objects you intend to use on reports. Steps to create several types of objects are in this chapter.

When a saved object is placed on a report, the definition you gave to that object becomes part of the report's definition, and in turn affects the SQL that is sent to your data source when the report is run. The SQL determines the appropriate data to be gathered, calculated, and displayed on this report. In this way, the objects you create and place on a report determine the results a user sees when he runs the completed report.