Create a metric named 'Max of 1'. For Compound Profit to be dynamically aggregated correctly, you change the dynamic aggregation function to Sum. Percent-to-total shortcut metrics display the percent in relation to a selected total of each item affected by the metric. You need the Use View Filter Editor (MicroStrategy Developer) and/or the Web Use View Filter Editor (MicroStrategy Web) privileges. 5. Avoid Duplicated Datasets. Now, in the "Dataset Objects" pane, click on the down arrow next to the Profit metric and go to "Percent to Total" and then "Customer Region". According to me we can create shortcut metric on right clicking metric in visualization in dossier as percent to total and select by columns then edit the newly created metric and add (@r+2) or (@r+1) according to your need in derived metric editor and validate and check the percentage change in grid. In the right pane, enter a name for the metric in the Metric Name field. In MicroStrategy, users can create an Average metric from an attribute description that. Create a derived metric and reserve it for future use in a visualization. Follow the steps in KB4374 to create a transformation on the attribute year. Creating and Adjusting Titles in MicroStrategy Developer. Create a report with attribute 'Region', metric 'Revenue', 'Profit' and 'Cost'. From the drop-down, select Metric Templates (at the bottom of the list). Metrics are similar to formulas in spreadsheet software. Summary Table (This is not aggregation of the fact table below) The following steps explain how to create the metrics for the report above: 1. This returns the average (arithmetic mean) of the listed values. The following code demonstrates how to accomplish this: Dynamic aggregation is the process by which metric results at the base level returned by the database are further aggregated in the Analytical Engine in OLAP. Selecting a metric allows you to create a metric-to-metric qualification, which are described in Filtering on metric-to-metric comparisons. Metrics are MicroStrategy objects that represent business measures and key performance indicators. Continue creating the metric (for example, adding levels or conditionality) . Profit Margin = (6-4)/4 which equals 0. Add it to the grid as shown below: Metric Expressions. This calculation can be used to measure the growth of users, customers, revenue, employees, and much more. MicroStrategy has two kinds of transformations, that are expression-based transformations and Table-based transformations. All of the freeform SQL reports would have the following format. 54K KB20520: Percent to Total metric calculates the grand total according to the values reflected on the report instead of the…To Create a Combination Graph. 3. Alternatively, from the Data menu, select Show Totals. Drag the attributes and metrics to use as selectors from the Datasets panel to the empty selector. Metrics are MicroStrategy objects that represent business measures and key performance indicators. To Create a Conditional Metric. This issue is documented in "KB16618 - Percent to total derived metrics in a report with a custom group in the page axis return lower percentages than expected in MicroStrategy Engine". Create a second metric defined as Count(Quarter) with the level set to Quarter and grouping set to none. 6. . For example: Run the report as shown below: Percent value for Jan 2007 is 502,224 / 1,682,656=29. 46%; Percent value for 2007 is 8,647,238 / 35,023,708=24. To Create a Conditional Metric. In this example we will be creating Level Metrics in orde. If you wanted to show the Top 10 Brands based on a metric called 'Dollars', you would create a 'Set Qualification' filter and use the metric 'Dollars', set the Function Parameter as 'Rank', the Operator as 'Top' and. Open the Report Editor. To Enable or Disable a Graph Report to Inherit a Metric's Graph Color in MicroStrategy Developer. Custom groups enable users to view specific elements based on a metric or specification. Open the dossier you want to modify. For example, derived metrics can be used to subtract the data of one metric by the data of another metric (Metric1 - Metric2) to obtain a new metric. In MicroStrategy Developer, you can create the following. In the Datasets panel, double-click attributes and metrics to add them to the visualization. Enter the values to use as arguments. To Display or Hide Existing Grand Totals and Subtotals on a Report. Click Next when you finish selecting metrics, filters, and transformations. Only one filter or prompt can be associated with each metric, but that filter can contain multiple qualifications. KB14798: How to create a metric to calculate the number of days between a date attribute and the current date in MicroStrategy Developer 9. To Create a Metric Using the Formula Editor. 11: 1. Scorecards, dashboards, and reports can be. This is a group-value function. You can narrow the list of functions displayed in the pane by doing one of the following:KB13828: How to create a grid report showing Pareto (percentage) or cumulative percentages in MicroStrategy Developer 9. Right-click the selected metrics, choose Calculation, and the function or formula for combining the metrics. From a practical perspective, metrics are the calculations performed on data stored in your database, the results of which are displayed on a report. In Microstrategy Tutorial 1. For example: ApplyComparison ("#0>#1", Store@ID, Month@ID) To use a special fixed comparison operator (for example, MYCOMPARISON) in a condition (WHERE clause) comparing the IDs of attribute1 and. In the Datasets panel, select the metrics you want to combine into a derived metric. The count function parameters used in the metric should be changed to Distinct Count and a suitable FactID should be selected in order to use the correct fact to calculate the customers. From the MicroStrategy Developer File menu, point to New > Attribute. To open a document in Design Mode, from a folder, right-click the document and select Edit. Using this logic it seems it would be worthless to create new attributes using existing attributes because most functions support only metric as an argumentSeptember 06, 2018. The default metric formatting for currency, displays the dollar sign ($) on the metric without being aligned (two spaces to the left of the first unit). The following steps demonstrate how to do that in MicroStrategy Tutorial project: Import data into project and create dashboard. If all the metrics in the percent bar graph have only non-negative values, or if the document is viewed in a different view mode (e. The report returns the following data when executed. 1. You can display the bottom 50% of metric values. By default, a metric is calculated at the report level, meaning that the lowest attributes on the report dictate how the metric is aggregated. Metrics are calculations performed on your data. YoY Percent Change = DIVIDE ( [ThisYear], [LastYear], 0)-1. You need to compare business unit costs on a quarterly basis. Click Insert Visualization . Make your changes, save the metric, and then save and re-execute the report to see the changes in the metric. Click "Existing Dataset" to import the report you just created. Click Switch to Function Editor. Add a grid to the document with the Region attribute and Profit metric. Select Format. 4. Unless the defaults are changed, the function ranks the values in ascending order by the value of the metric, and the rank is an integer. A typical case is to create a derived metric to perform calculations between columns of metric data. 4. The units Fahrenheit or Celsius scales have relatively arbitrary zero points, and it makes no sense to talk about percentages. 4. For a description of level metrics, including examples, see Level Metrics: Applying the Metric Condition to the Metric Calculation. The break by setting of a metric qualification allows you to choose the attribute level at which to restart counting rank or percent values for a metric. Open the dossier you want to modify. 5) {!+} * The percentile function receives two parameters. Run the report in Grid View. Drag R2 to document as grid. Additional metrics are displayed as lines on the graph. 2) Go to the Data menu > Edit Drill Map. You need to compare business unit costs on a quarterly basis. Add the metric into the report and the concatenated metric. In addition, a colored badge appears with the percent of increase or decrease. The following template contains metrics #1 and #2 above and the attributes 'Year' and 'Category'. The grouping options for levels include: Standard groups by the attribute level of the target. Using rank and percent-to-total metric analysis: You can create derived metrics that display the percent in relation to a selected total of each item affected by the metric or display a ranking. Right-click the selected metrics, choose Calculation, and the function or formula for combining the metrics. The following steps describes how to create such derived metric. In the Datasets panel, right-click the metric to use to create a derived metric and choose Calculation. MicroStrategy Usage . The actual thousands separator used depends on the session locale. Open the Input Metric Formula dialog box to create a new metric by performing one of the following steps: In Developer: Choose Insert > New Metric. compound metrics. If you are editing the If function, use the values in step 7. How are metrics ordered in thresholds in MicroStrategy Developer. NOTE 1:Follow these steps to enable drilling on metrics: In MicroStrategy Developer. The metric can also show a total by page, show a total for each value of the attribute, or show the grand. The key points are: 1) create the Contribution (%) derived metric in the report instead of in the dashboard; 2) use filtering selector instead of slicing selector. Avg is often used to create subtotals and metrics based on fact data. You can narrow the list of functions displayed in the pane by doing one of the following: A metric set qualification lets the manager restrict data based on a set of attributes, in this case certain products, based on a metric value, rank, or rank percentage, in this case, inventory count below a certain level. From the Data menu, choose Thresholds. Non-aggregatable metrics are defined using the dimensionality section of the metric editor. c. To create the financial data metric In the Datasets panel, click More to the right of the dataset in which you are creating a derived metric and choose Create Metric. In the Properties and Formatting window, choose Properties > Selector. Open MicroStrategy Developer. The graph item for the smallest metric value in the visualization appears as a percentage of the size of the largest item. To select the metric (s) for which users can define their filters, on the Definition tab, choose one of the following options: Choose a metric: Browse to and select a specific metric to use. This is an OLAP function. In MicroStrategy Desktop, create the metric to calculate / using MovingSum() function, as shown below:Create a selector on metrics, targeting the graph in step 3. KB13828: How to create a grid report showing Pareto (percentage) or cumulative percentages in MicroStrategy Developer 9. Click on the YoY Percent Change measure then on the Modeling ribbon click the % symbol in the formatting. Set the selectors S1 and S2 to target the three grids at the same time. 3. Highlight and right-click on the function name "RunningSum". x when placed in a Report Services Document. Metrics are MicroStrategy objects that represent business measures and key performance indicators. ; The pane on the left displays the Report Objects which shows the components (attributes, attribute forms, metrics, custom groups, consolidations, and so on) included. Enter a description for the custom group in the Enter Custom Group Description Here field. In the Datasets panel, click More to the right of the dataset in which you are creating a derived metric and choose Create Metric. Process Metrics: It can be used to improve the process efficiency of the SDLC ( Software Development Life Cycle) Product Metrics: It deals with the quality of the software product. If you are on a folder page, click Create on the icon bar on the left, then select New Metric. For example, the simple report shown below displays the quarterly percent growth for each region. To return all data where metric values are Null, create a view filter metric qualification on the metric that uses the Is Null function. x? Knowledge Base: How to concatenate two. Change the data of the report and re-execute it. KB42438: How to calculate a metric based on the previous two values of another metric in MicroStrategy Developer 9. Derived metrics are easy to create and can be made on-the-fly when you are viewing or creating a report, allowing you to create a metric while focusing on a given report. . Group Elements. Create a derived metric with formula (Revenue – Revenue) and add to columns 2. Conclusion and referenceTo Create a Transformation Shortcut Metric. Derived metrics are metrics that a report analyst can create based on existing metrics on the report. x Enabling the 'Show Data Labels' and 'Show total' options on a vertical bar:stacked graph will display all of the metric values along with the totals in MicroStrategy Developer 9. StatusRefer to following technical note for detailed instructions: KB6012 - How to create a metric that determines the number of business days between two dates in the MicroStrategy Developer 9. A simple metric can also contain non-group functions or. Click Next. Every Command Manager command is represented in this module. Displaying a previously hidden metric columnThe Insert Function dialog box opens. Consider the following example from MicroStrategy Tutorial: Create a custom group called "Category" which has two group elements, 1 and 2. Enter the values to use as arguments. (This type of metric is called a conditional metric. Enter a name for the metric in the Metric Name field. Examples of metrics. Set the Conditionality to Brand filter. To Create a Transformation Shortcut Metric. In the report, the metric should look as follows: The following steps explain how to create a metric that displays a date range in which values come from two date prompts. This ensures that graph report results are easy to decipher based on color. The metric calculates at the level of the target, if possible. 3. If a metric cannot be created, you can double-click the metric to view a message describing why the metric creation failed. or. Note that a custom group, 'Age Groups' from the MicroStrategy Tutorial project, is used in the page-by axis. Within the Titles category, select the check box for the title or label to display. See below for the definition. Metrics are completely reusable - they can be added to different reports or even other metrics. In the Datasets panel, select the metrics you want to combine into a derived metric. 4. Step 2. Step 2. Click the check mark icon. ApplySimple("CONCAT(to_char(#0, 999999) , #1)", , ) Validate the expression. The steps to create and use this metric is as follows. Insert a derived metric 'M01' with expression 'Max(Region@DESC) {~+} '. 5. They allow you to group attribute elements in new ways without changing the metadata and. SYMPTOM: In Microstrateg Web/Developer a user is not able to apply filters to attributes/metrics in text boxes in a document detail section. In the metric definition, Right click the Count function and select Count parameters. This visualization allows you to create a grid that analyzes different aspects of data across a common dimensions or attributes in rows. x-10. To open a document in Design Mode, from a folder, right-click the document and select Edit. Launch the Prompt Generation Wizard in MicroStrategy Developer by going to File menu > New and choosing 'Prompt'. 9-10. 4. Click Create on any page, and select New Metric. x - 10. KB8813: How to create a Percent to Total metric without OLAP Services permissions in Microstrategy Developer. e. x - 10. Here is how you would calculate the MOM percent increase: MOM increase = ($200 – $100)/$100 * 100. Each metric should use a color that can be easily distinguished from the colors used for other metrics. Place an attribute in the Trend area to view the metric by a specific attribute element. Of a total calculated for each value of the. The report must be in either Grid view or Grid and Graph view. Unlike Value prompts with type of Numeric, in a Text prompt, it is not possible to drag and drop to the Metric Definition pane. Add Country Id, Year Id, and the derived metric to the grid, define visualization filter on Month and set the attribute Join Type to be Outer Join - Ignore Filter 5. Display window for creating an attribute element prompt; Create a filter using the prompt created above. You get all the attributes and metrics as usual. Alternatively, 4. Limit the Use of Derived Attributes or Metrics. Subtotals are totals of selected groups of your metric data, totaled at a level you select. When using a Grid visualization in Visual Insight in MicroStrategy Web 9. 96K KB17427: How to display the total for a grouping attribute on a graph in a MicroStrategy Developer 9. Common examples of a threshold's condition include sales that exceed a certain amount, revenue that falls below a certain percentage, or employee resource numbers that drop below a particular number. The percentile refers, thus, to the top part of the percentage in which the item is located. To Add a Target Visualization to Your Dossier: Open the dossier with the visualization. Steps are below to create a conditional metric. MicroStrategy Developer provides users with the ability to create shortcut metrics such as transformation, percent to total and rank metrics on the fly. The grand total for the derived metric, Percent to Total, should display 100% as expected. To calculate the Account Amount, create the following metric, called Actual Amount, to. Select "Rank parameters". The grouping options for levels include: Standard, which groups by the attribute level of the target. It can be created using a multitude of means, including: Counting the number of times something happens. 56K KB20520: Percent to Total metric calculates the grand total according to the values reflected on the report instead of the…A metric set qualification lets the manager restrict data based on a set of attributes, in this case certain products, based on a metric value, rank, or rank percentage, in this case, inventory count below a certain level. If none of the built-in number formats meet your needs, you can create your own custom format in the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box. Click the Options icon . Create a report with Category, and Revenue; 2. Per Cell: Allow MicroStrategy to display the selected metrics using the axis values best suited to display the metric data. This article outlines how to create a value prompt for each row of a report that has a report filter based on 'Top n Rank' of a metric in MicroStrategy Developer This steps below describe method to create a value prompt for each row of a report that has n rows and these rows correspond to elements in the Top n Rank of a metric in MicroStrategy. This metric will serve as the denominator for the percent to total metric. Setting "ByValue" to False enables. The results of these calculations appear on your dossier. Go to the Data menu > Report Data Options > Display > Alias. KB19708:. Published: Jun 9, 2017. To Create and Adjust Titles in MicroStrategy Developer. x - 10. De-select the metric checkbox for Random Number. if both conditions are met, then Red, else Green. The definition is Max(1). = 100%. These metrics can be created in MicroStrategy Agent as follows: Consider the following example values for Sales and Cost. Follow the next steps to give a metric a customized format: Open the Metric Editor, go to Tools menu, and select either Values or Headers, as illustrated below: Go to the Number tab and select 'Custom'. 3. 4. The ApplyComparison function is used with comparison operators such as >, Like, and In, which accepts facts, attributes, and metrics as input. Select Highest % to create a threshold based on the top percent of metric values. Drag an attribute from the Datasets panel to the Rows area of the Editor panel to add attributes to the rows. Add the objects to a MicroStrategy report and different results are returned then expected: 4. This issue is documented in "KB16618 - Percent to total derived metrics in a report with a custom group in the page axis return lower percentages than expected in MicroStrategy Engine". Different types of shortcut metrics are edited in different interfaces. 45 -> 24. Create a new consolidation with three elements - Winter, Spring and Winter + Spring, as illustrated below: Create a report with the above created consolidation and three metrics - 'Revenue',. Next, right. Bounce rate is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. If the Region attribute is removed from the grid, the metric value is dynamically aggregated to the Day level. Create metric based on fact with the filter in metric condition, as shown below: Login as different users, and the results are as expected. In MicroStrategy Web, click the metric for which you want to enable a grand total or subtotals. Red dots: Indicate other measured values outside of the allowed range. ). 1. To start, build a report with the attributes Region and Year and the Units Sold metric. Define the expression to be used. Step 1. Consolidations are used to specify the data that you want to view in your report. Basic Card. Create four level metrics as shown below: Create a report with Year, Quarter and Month. This function evaluates multiple expressions until a condition is determined to be true, then returns a corresponding value. As you make modifications, you can. To start, build a report with the attributes Region and Year and the Units Sold metric. And last but not least, MAPE can not be used when using percentages make no sense. Create a report with attributes and , and metric . 1. The Level (Dimensionality) definition pane displays below the Metric component area. STEPS TO IMPLEMENT. This tutorial shows how to create derived attributes and metrics in a dossier. Revenue + Profit Click. To create a round-down function that produces the following sample results, use the following formula in Metric Editor in MicroStrategy Developer 9. Subtotals. x Number of Views 2. In MicroStrategy Developer , create two object prompts "Metric_Prompt1" and "Metric_Prompt2" with same definition as shown below: Create a report with Month in rows and two prompts in columns as shown below: Run the report in dual axis line graph mode. In the Metric editor, write the formula for the average sales. This allows the same default formatting seen on a grid report to also be displayed on a graph report. Given the following objects: Metrics: PROFIT: Sum (Profit) {~+} : Rank<ASC=False> (PROFIT) * : Percentile<Ascending=False> (PROFIT, 0. Derived metrics are not metric objects that can be re-used in other MicroStrategy reports and. 69%; Percent value for total revenue of all. Steps are below to create a conditional metric. Create a derived metric and reserve it for future use in a visualization. Enter . In the Datasets panel, right-click the metric to use to create a derived metric and choose Calculation. Create a report with Attribute "Year", custom group "Category" and Metric Revenue; Click in the Metric Revenue in Report Object and go to Insert Tab; Percent to Total; Total for each; Chose the level, here Year Metric MF can calculate percent revenue values for each row at its parent time level. Apply the Today - 2 Months to a Metric. Create a second metric defined as Count(Quarter) with the level set to Quarter and grouping set to none. KB18705: How to create a custom subtotal to display the grand total of a metric that uses the 'End on hand' metric in Micr… Number of Views 2. For example, you may want to see all the customers in a retail store that bring in over $1,000k in revenue per month, or a teach may want to only view data on students who scored over 2000 on their SATs. Click Switch to Formula Editor. A screen appears where users can choose to create a specific type of value. 5. Then it creates a third metric, a compound metric. Unless the defaults are changed, the function ranks the values in ascending order by the value of the metric, and the rank is an integer. Changing the display of null values This displays data with metric values between 1% and 19% and between 41% and 100%. To Create a Metric. They don't trigger more metric alerts, but the alert stays in the active state. A transformation table is a type of relation table, normally used to create a transformation metric. Identifies values that are null. These privileges are part of OLAP Services. Click on the 'Subtotals' tab. ( How?) If the Object Browser (the list of folders and objects) is not displayed, select Object Browser from the View menu. A derived metric performs a calculation on the fly with the data available on a report, without re-executing the report against the data source. … Number of Views 2. Bounce rate. 4. 2987. Each ring can have conditional formatting and can show progress against a fixed value or another metric. Review the Pie chart examples above for an example of this. If the format contains commas separated by number signs (#) or zeros, a thousands separator is used in the formatted text. Use a percent-to-total shortcut metric to show cell-level values as percents of an accumulated row or column total. Inheriting metric graph color is enabled by default. If you have any questions or suggestions for a f. Click Exit. Create a report with a null/zero column in the grid at the element-metric level 2. The results report displays the sales data for only those products with inventory counts below the threshold value. Click Create on any page, and select New Metric. It is based on MicroStrategy Tutorial. Log into a project in MicroStrategy Web. Choose "False" for "ByValue". For the steps below to achieve the requirement: In MicroStrategy Developer, edit the attribute . For more information about disabling, enabling,. Transformation Metrics: Time-Based and Other Comparisons. In MicroStrategy Web create a new Visual Insight dashboard with the Year attribute, Region attribute and the Revenue metric. the value that should be 1 is displaying 0. Introduction to Metrics. If you are editing the If function, use the values in step 7. 2 in Min Size to display the smallest metric items as 20% of the largest graph items. 9. A user may want to create an attribute with an alternating expression depending on a certain condition, a conditional attribute. Finally, add the calculation for the Year to Year comparison. Delete Unused Objects. The Formatting window opens. They are pretty similar to the formulas you see in spreadsheet software. A second numeric value appears. under the "Insert" menu. 6. In the list of categories on the left, click Subtotals. By default, a metric is calculated at the report level, meaning that the lowest attributes on the report dictate how the metric is aggregated. Create the metrics as follows: 2. For steps to create a view filter in MicroStrategy Web, see the MicroStrategy Web Help. Create a metric selector S1. Tutorial project is used here. 24. In this video, you will learn how to create calculated Level Metrics in a dataset inside a Dossier. Open 'Last Years Dollar Sales' in the metric editor and highlight the 'Transformation' definition as shown below: Drag and drop the transformation 'Last Year. To use "By Percent" option for the "Rank" function, perform the following steps: Open a new metric and use the "Rank" function in the metric formula. Create new metric Average (Revenue) via Revenue>New Metric>Average as shown below: Edit Average (Revenue) and change level to Region as shown below: Save the dashboard and create new. Choose "False" for "ByValue". CREATE METRIC "<metric_name>". From the Insert menu, select New Metric. Follow the next steps to give a metric a customized format: Open the Metric Editor, go to Tools menu, and select either Values or Headers, as illustrated below: Go to the Number tab and select 'Custom'. Save the cube, and run it to publish. You can then apply an Element / value selector to the grid as a drop-down. To create a shortcut metric on a report,. 5. Drag objects from the Datasets panel to the Editor panel to add the corresponding data to the visualization. . In MicroStrategy Tutorial, create a metric named Percentage Change in Revenue that calculates the percentage change in revenue as compared to last year's revenue as shown below: Click on Tools in the menu, select Formatting and then click on Values. Grouping in a metric level determines how the metric aggregates. 33 (or 33%). ApplySimple("str(#0) + #1", , ) Add the following expression if using Oracle. We use MicroStrategy Tutorial objects. The proportion of each class of data records is displayed as a percentage of the total counts for this node as well as a percentage of the total population. For example, you can use filters to create the TY/LY comparison. 4. 2. x behavior), put ;-at the end of the level statement (inside the braces). Create a simple metric. You can narrow the list of functions displayed in the pane by doing one of the following: If you want to create the metric by defining the metric's formula directly, see Metric Formula Editor. For example, if a report contains revenue by year and month, the numbers are calculated to reflect monthly sales data. If you want to create the metric by defining the metric's formula directly, see Metric Formula Editor. Create a third metric that is defined as a concatenation of the two previous metrics as seen below. (For a definition and examples of levels of aggregation, see How data is aggregated on a report: metric level . Run the report. Create attributes , , and facts , accordingly. Case can be used for categorizing data based on multiple conditions.