MicroStrategy projects

Conceptually, a project in MicroStrategy is the environment in which all related reporting is done.

The image below shows the default projects that appear if all default installation options were accepted during MicroStrategy installation. The projects in the image below include MicroStrategy Tutorial and My First Project, as well as other sample projects.

A typical project contains reports, filters to qualify the report data, metrics that calculate the data, attributes that provide context for the metric data, and mathematical functions. Projects generally also contain other schema objects and application objects. This chapter introduces you to basic attributes, metrics, filters, and prompts. For detailed information on and examples of other report objects, see the Advanced Reporting Help. For interface-specific information on report objects, click Help.

The image below shows some documents in the MicroStrategy Tutorial project, within the Billing Managers folder on the left. Objects within a selected folder on the left (in this case, the folder called Billing Managers) appear on the right side of the screen.

Generally, a report designer places various MicroStrategy objects such as filters, metrics, and attributes on reports, thus creating reports for business users to run and analyze.

If you do not have a working project yet, you can use the Tutorial project with most of the procedures in this chapter to learn how to create the various report objects in MicroStrategy. For information about what the Tutorial project is and how to access it, see About sample data and the MicroStrategy Tutorial project.