Creating a Graph visualization

You can add a Graph visualization to a Visual Insight analysis, to display a set of data in a specific type (called a graph style), allowing an analyst to quickly analyze the data in a visual display. MicroStrategy provides a number of graph styles to meet your reporting needs. A graph style is the type of graph, such as vertical area, bubble, and so on.

To display properly, each graph style requires certain types of data. For requirements for each graph style, see Minimum object requirements for each graph style. For an introduction to graph reports and complete details on each graph style available in MicroStrategy, see the Graphing chapter in the MicroStrategy Advanced Reporting Guide.

Prerequisite

You must have the Web Visual Insight and Execute Document or Analysis privileges.

To add a Graph visualization to an analysis

Click the name of the analysis to run it.
Click the Add Visualization icon , then select the type of graph you want to add. The options are:

Bubble
Combination
Horizontal Area
Horizontal Bar
Horizontal Line
Vertical Area
Vertical Bar
Vertical Line
Pie
Scatter

The new visualization is added to the analysis. To add attributes and metrics to the visualization, from the Dataset Objects panel, click and drag attributes or metrics to the Drop Zones panel, as follows:

Note: To display properly, each graph style requires certain types of data. For requirements for each graph style, see Minimum object requirements for each graph style.

To add an attribute to the rows of the graph, drag the attribute to the Rows area.

To add an attribute to the columns of the graph, drag the attribute to the Columns area.

To add a metric to the graph, drag the metric to the Metrics area. The Metrics object, an attribute unique to Visual Insight, is automatically added to the Dataset Objects panel. You can drag and drop the Metrics object to the Rows or Columns area of the Drop Zones panel, to change whether the metrics are displayed on the rows or columns of the graph.

To save your analysis, click the Save As icon . The Save As dialog box is displayed.
Navigate to the location in which you want to save the analysis, then type a name and description for the analysis in the Name and Description fields.