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Report filters are being ignored in Microstrategy report SQL

Report filters are being ignored in Microstrategy report SQL When users run a report using a simple filter, the filter is not applied to the report in MicroStrategy Developer 9.x and 10.x. The results returned to the users are not filtered as expected. The Report SQL indicates that the filter has not been applied. CAUSE: One scenario is that the MicroStrategy 10.x SQL Engine is ignoring the conditionality at the report level because a metric in the report also contains a related conditionality which has been set to "remove related report filter elements" or "ignore" the filtering criteria at the report level. ACTION: When a report contains the above situation, the follow steps can be done to have both filters applied and be merged for the report results to be executed with: If the report's and metric's filter affect attributes from the same hierarchy, check that the following setting is un-checked: This setting is placed in the me...