Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

Linking reports and documents

The link allows executing a report/document from within the report even if the destination report is not related to the original report. We can execute a link from a report, grid/graph within the document, attributes, metrics, and prompts.

The components of links are as follows:

• Name: This is the descriptive name of the link, which helps in identifying the target. By default, it is Link1 for the first link.
• Target: This is the report or document that we want to execute from within the report.
• Prompt based on target: Gives the user a way to answer the prompt in a target, if any.

To create a link:

1. Open the report on which you want to create a link.
2. To create a link, right-click the object (attributes, metrics, and hierarchies) ...