Displaying or hiding attribute forms

An attribute is a business concept. An attribute form is descriptive information about an attribute. For example, the attribute Customer can have the forms First Name, Last Name, Address, Email Address, and so on. A form is a descriptive category for any data your organization saves about any of its attributes. Just as an attribute element is a distinct occurrence of an attribute, a form defines the attribute.

In Design Mode in MicroStrategy Web, report designers can choose which attribute forms are displayed on a report. From the Report Objects panel, right-click any attribute form and select the attribute forms you want to appear on the report.

You can choose to display or hide any attribute forms related to the attributes on your report.

To display or hide attribute forms

1. In MicroStrategy Web, run the report that you want to format.
2. From the Data menu, select the Edit Attribute Formsicon. The Attribute Forms dialog box is displayed. If DHTML is disabled, click Go.
3. From the Current Attribute drop-down list, select the attribute whose forms you want to display.
4. Select the check boxes next to the attribute forms you want to display. In the Selected Forms area, you can see what attribute forms are currently available for the given attribute.
5. To specify a display order for the attribute forms, click the name of the attribute form to highlight it. Then, click the up or down arrow on the right to reorder the selected form. If DHTML is disabled, click the option in the Selected column for the attribute form to move.
6. Click Apply to display the selected attribute forms in the report.