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MicroStrategy - Understanding Level Metric

Many people have hard time understanding the Level Metrics in MicroStrategy - including me. Here is a quick cheat sheet I put together for reference. Consider the following data layout: Country, Regions, Call Centers Geographical Hierarchy: Country --< Regions --< Call Centers Total 6 call centers : Region1 (R1C1, R1C2), Region2 (R2C3, R2C4), Region3 (R3C5, R3C6) Report Filter : Call Center in (R1C1, R2C3, R2C4) 'The Cheat Sheet' TARGET ATTRIBUTE FILTERING GROUPING Revenue Summary Outcome Region STANDARD STANDARD Apply Report Filter to Call Center output on report and SUM all Revenue for Call Centers displayed on report and Group By Region Region1: R1C1 Region2: R2C3 + R2C4 Region STANDARD NONE Apply Report Filter to Call Center output on report and SUM all Revenue for Call Centers displayed on report and do NOT Group By Region1: R1C1 + R2C3 + R2C...