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Pause and Resume Dashboard Execution
When you add attributes and metrics to your visualizations or modify filters in Dashboard Authoring, MicroStrategy queries the datasets and performs calculations to generate your visualizations.
If you are working with large datasets when designing your dashboard, these actions can take time. You can pause the dashboard execution at any time and perform multiple edits without having to wait for your visualizations to refresh after every action.
- Click Pause Dashboard Execution
in the toolbar. - Click Resume Dashboard Execution
anytime to update your visualizations after performing edits.
While the dashboard is paused, it will look like your edits are not taking effect. During that time, you can then perform edits, switch the visualization type, add or change filters, and more.
Performing certain edits in your dashboard may require a data update. In these cases, such options are disabled when the dashboard is paused, but are re-enabled after clicking Resume Dashboard Execution .
Filtering When the Dashboard is Paused
You can create new filters, modify their selections, and even define targeting while the dashboard execution is paused.
This includes defining visualization filters in the filter panel, configuring visualizations to target other visualizations in the same page or on a different page, and adding advanced filters to your visualizations by clicking Edit Filter... in the visualization context menu.
Any changes made in the Filter Panel while the dashboard is paused will be applied when it resumes execution even if the Auto-apply Filters option on the Filter Panel context menu is disabled.
Filter Targeting When the Dashboard is Paused
Although you can define filter targets in pause mode, MicroStrategy needs the execution to resume in order to update the target filters when the selections of a parent filter change. Click Resume Dashboard Execution to update the list of elements for filters styles such as checkbox, drop-down, and radio buttons.
You can make selections in the Filter Panel that exclude all data in your visualization. If this happens, update the selections in the Filter panel after the dashboard execution resumes.
Opening Dashboards Directly without Executing
You can open dashboards directly in pause mode. This is useful if you want to perform some quick edits and do not need to wait for the dashboard display its visualizations. This also allows you to edit a dashboard when one of its datasets fails to execute. For example, when an In-Memory Cube is not published or a connection to an external data source of a Live Connect dataset is not successful.
You can perform actions, such as Replace Dataset and Edit Dataset, when pausing dashboard execution.
- Locate the dashboard.
- Right-click the dashboard and select Edit.