Configure Action Buttons for Use in a Modern Grid

Starting in MicroStrategy ONE (September 2024), dashboard creators can use a standard Python or transaction Python script to configure action buttons in modern grids. Users can then add these buttons to a column and trigger actions defined in the associated Python script for the corresponding row. Currently, only one button column is supported.

Follow the steps below to get started.

• Deployment Flags

• Privileges to Create Custom Scripts

• Privileges to Configure Transactions

• Privileges to Consume the Dashboard

• Required Library Web Privileges

• Prepare a Custom Runtime

• Prepare a Standard Python Script

Deployment Flags

Since the button is configured with a Python script, the deployment flag to use the remote Python executor is required.

features.python.remote.execution = true

To use a transaction Python script, the deployment flag to enable transactions is required.

features.dossier-transaction = true

Privileges to Create Custom Scripts

Assign users the following privileges to create custom scripts:

• Use Scripts Python

• Certify Python Scripts

Privileges to Configure Transactions

Assign users the following privileges to create a transaction enabled dashboard:

• Web config Transaction: Only necessary for configuring the button with a Python transaction script.

• Use Scripts Python

• View ACL for the associated script

Privileges to Consume the Dashboard

Assign users the following privileges to consume the dashboard and submit data changes:

• Execute Transaction: Only necessary when the button is configured with a Python transaction script

• Use Scripts Python

• View ACL for the script

Required Library Web Privileges

• Use Library Web

• Web create Dashboard

• Web edit Dashboard

• Web save Dashboard

• Web run Dashboard

• Create application objects

Prepare a Custom Runtime

See Create a Custom Runtime.

Prepare a Standard Python Script

To prepare Python transaction script instead, see Create a Python Enabled Transaction Dashboard

• Include at least one variable in the script so it can be mapped to a template object.

• The Prompted input parameter must be enabled for the variable.

  

• Certify the script after saving it. Only certified scripts can be used to configure buttons.

• The View ACL is required for users of a dashboard in which the script is used to configure a button.