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MicroStrategy Quick Guide:
What’s New in MicroStrategy Web
CONTENTS
Microstrategy Web Project Home Page
Mason Logo
Mason Logo Menu
User Name Menu
Search
Left Panel
Folder Pages
Sort
Search for Dependents
Object Icons
Reports
Documents
Recovery
Microstrategy Web Project Home Page
GMU branding is added in the new version of MicroStrategy Web.
New Version – GMU Branding
Old Version – Default MicroStrategy Branding
Mason Logo
In the new version of MicroStrategy Web, the Mason logo replaces the MicroStrategy starburst icon. You see the Mason logo on the left side of the navigation baron every page of the application.
Mason LogoStarburst
In addition to the new image, this icon also behaves differently. In the old version, clicking the starburst icon displayed a menu. Now, clicking the Mason logo returns you to the project home page. To display the menu, click the down arrow on the right side of the Mason logo.
Mason Logo Menu
The new Mason logo menu no longer includes the New Report, Preferences, and Logout options. You can still create a new report from the Create Report option on the project home page or from the Create button on the left panel.
Mason Logo MenuStarburst Menu
User Name Menu
The user name now displays on the right side of the Navigation bar and can be seen from any page. In the old version of MicroStrategy Web, this location contained the help button. Like the Mason logo, the user name also displaysa menu when you click the down arrow on the right side. This new menu contains the Preferences, Help, About MicroStrategy, and Logout options.
New User Name Menu
Search
To the left of the user name, the search button is also on the Navigation bar and can be seen from any page. You no longer see a search feature on the project home page.
Search Button
Clicking the search button opens a window where you can search by object name. The first selector enables you to search in the entire project, the Shared Reports folder, the My Reports folder, or the current folder. The second selector enables you to use different operators – contains, exactly, begins with, or ends with. By default, your search looks in the current folder using the contains operator.
Search Window
Clicking the Refine link to the right of the search box displays additional searching options. In addition to object name, you can also search by object type, owner, date, or description. You can choose to search for more than one object type at a time by selecting any number of object types on the first selector.
Search Window – Additional Options
Left Panel
In addition to the Navigation bar that displays at the top of each MicroStrategy page, there is also a panel on the left side of each folder or subfolder page that provides additional navigation options. In the new version ofMicroStrategy Web, a green create button is added. Use this option to create new objects such as reports and folders. Depending on your privileges, you may also be able to create additional objects such as documents, custom groups, prompts, and filters.
Create Button
The search and preferences options no longer display on the left panel. You can access the search features from the Search button on the Navigation bar, and you can access the preferences from the Preferences option on the User Name menu, also accessible from the Navigation bar.
New Left PanelOld Left Panel
In this new version of MicroStrategy Web, a Recents option is added. Using this new feature, you are able to quickly navigate to recently viewed reports and documents.
Recents Option
Folder Pages
Sort
On any folder or subfolder page, when viewing the items in List View, sorting is now available. You can sort on any of the columns – Name, Owner, Modified, or Description – by clicking the column header. Clicking the header once sorts the column in ascending order. Clicking the header a second time sorts the column in descending order. The arrow on the right of the column header indicates how the column is sorted.
Descending Sort on Name
Search for Dependents
You are now able to search for the dependents of an object. That is, you can search for any objects that use a particular object. For example, when you search a report for its dependents, any document that uses that report as a data set is displayed. To search for dependent objects, right-click an object and selectFind Dependents. The Find Dependents dialog box opens, displaying the objects that use the selected object.
Find Dependents
Object Icons
While not changing functionality in any way, there are new object icons. One place you see the change is when answering prompts. For example, the attribute element icon was formerly a red cube butnow is a turquoise diamond.
New Attribute Element IconOld Attribute Element Icon
The filter icon was formerly a Venn diagram but now is a green funnel.
New Filter IconOld Filter Icon
Here are some additional examples of changed object icons.
New IconsOld Icons
Reports
When running a report, you also see changes. Just as the object icons are updated without changing any functionality, so too are the report toolbar buttons. Because the new black and white icons display in blue when selected, you should find it easier to see exactly which settings are enabled.
New Tools Toolbar
Old Tools Toolbar
Documents
In the new version of MicroStrategy Web, documents automatically run in the new Presentation view. This view simplifies the user interface and always runs in full screen mode. Your documents are now centered, both horizontally and vertically.In Presentation view, no menus or toolbars display. However, the Navigation bar still displays, with the addition of the menu button.
Document Menu Button
Clicking the menu button displays a menu with options to print, export, save, and so forth. The options you see depend on your privileges.
Document Menu
On grids within a document, instead of right-clicking, now there are down arrows that open the context-sensitive menus.
Down ArrowMenu
Recovery
This version of MicroStrategy Web displays a warning message before your user session times out. To stay logged in to MicroStrategy, click the Stay logged in button on the message.
Warning Message
If your user session does time out due to inactivity and you are logged out of MicroStrategy Web, you can log back in and quickly recover the last report you viewed before logging out. This option allows you toresume analyzing or editing a document or report without losing your work. Recover your report or document by clicking the notification link at the top of the page.
Recovery Notification Link
You can also reopen your lastdocument or report by clicking theRecentslink on the left panel.
Recents
MicroStrategy Version 10.41Updated December 5, 2016