Creating an empty project

The first step in a MicroStrategy BI application is creating an empty project. An Intelligence Server can host many projects. Projects can be copied from one Intelligence Server to another. Think of a project as a way to keep all the related objects together. A project must have at least one connection to get data from the data warehouse.

Getting ready

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How to do it...

In this first recipe we'll create a project:

  1. Open Start | All Programs | MicroStrategy | Desktop menu and click on the Desktop icon.
  2. Log in with Administrator and the corresponding password and right-click on the topmost folder named MicroStrategy Analytics Modules.
  3. From the context menu that appears, ...

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