SQL, VB, MicroStrategy & Other Topics

See the screenshot below. Is that the issue you are facing? Incorrect Row Height when exported Instead you want it like this...? Expected Layout of Row Header If so, it is a pretty simple change. Within document design, select the document part where the grid is located (eg Detail Header etc). Go to Format > Properties (MSTR 9.x) Select Layout tab Under Excel section, select the checkbox  that says 'Automatically fit rows' Problem fixed. Please excuse the absence of data in screenshots for obvious reasons!

Error: SQLEngine got an Exception from DFC: [DFCENGINE] Engine Logic: Fact does not exist at a level that can support the requested analysis. Fact: "Visitor Count". Level: "Visitor ID, Visitor Center Name and ID". Error in Process method of Component: SQLEngineServer, Project VUE Reporting, Job 43595, Error Code= -2147212800. If you have worked with MicroStrategy, you have definitely come across this error at least once! First things first - did you recently change any attributes? If you did, did you update the schema? If no, then that is most likely your problem. Update the schema from MSTR Desktop > Schema > Update Schema or Ctrl+U. If that does not fix your problem, I may not be able to give you an exact answer but can guide you through troubleshooting the problem. Below, I will use my error mentioned above related to Visitors to guide you through troubleshooting. The steps mentioned below may be a little long for those of you who are already famil...

If you are coming across the problem with Conditional metric and Drill Down, you will want to kick somebody's behind after reading the solution(s)! We have a hierarchy defined as Region - Country - State - City - Zipcode - Branch. For each Branch there is a count of Vistors. The report starts with simply Region and Count of Visitors. You should be able to drill down all the way to Branch from Region. Count of Visitors is a conditional metric based on certain filters. So, the requirements sounds pretty simple, right? Yes, and it is simple. But for some reason when I built out the report in less then 5 minutes the drill down would not work. Clicking Americas to drill down and expecting to see Canada, USA and Mexico, I was seeing all European and Asian countries as well. I thought there was something major  was wrong with relationships or data or even the ETL. This is a pretty simple report so obviously the issue has to be a major one for this report to not work, right? Right? Wr...

Here is a function that will return first day of the current quarter. This can be used within MicroStrategy via ApplySimple functionality as pass through function. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_GetFirstDayOfCurrentQuarter (@getdate as datetime ) RETURNS DateTime AS BEGIN RETURN CONVERT ( DATETIME , convert ( varchar (2), case ( month (@getdate)%3) WHEN 0 THEN ((( month (@getdate)/3) - 1) * 3) + 1 ELSE ( month (@getdate) - ( month (@getdate)%3)) + 1 END ) + '/1/' + convert ( Varchar (4), YEAR (@getdate)) ) END

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...

Here is a simple MicroStrategy formula to derive first day of quarter based on current date: MonthStartDate(AddMonths(CurrentDateTime(),(((Month(CurrentDateTime()) - 1) - ((Quarter(CurrentDateTime()) - 1) * 3)) * -1))) I am sure there must be easier ways than this. Comment with your versions of the formula.

One of my clients came up with a request - We need to create a report that prompts the user for a date and a second prompt that prompts whether the user would like to see MTD or YTD metric based on the answer to the date prompt. Really simple solution! If you haven't gotten in to this mode of thinking then do so now - Divide and Conquer. There are two separate requests here: Date Prompt Object Prompt Create a report (MicroStrategy Tutorial) with Year, Month and Day in the template. Define a report filter - Day. Easy Peasy! This step assumes you have already created n  metrics that you would like to offer in the prompt selection - in this example Revenue, Revenue - MTD and Revenue - YTD. Next, create a new prompt using Prompt Wizard. Make it an Object Prompt and offer the above mentioned three metrics as objects available for selection. Save and close the prompt wizard. Simply drag and drop the prompt to report template area (not report filter), save and execut...