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Microstrategy Document Autotext macros:

Autotext  code/macros in Microstrategy Document/dashboard

This is a list of the available auto text macros that the Report Services Document engine recognizes.
The following auto text codes allow you to add document variable information to your document. These auto text codes are automatically replaced by information about the document.

Auto text codes for MSTR document/dashboard:

 AUTOTEXTDESCRIPTION 
 {&PAGE} Display the current page.
 {&NPAGES} Display the total number of pages.
 {&DATETIME} Display the current date and time.
 {&USER} Display the user name that is executing the Report Services Document.
 {&DOCUMENT} Display the document name.
 {&DOCUMENTID} Display the document ID.
 {&DESCRIPTION} Display the document description.
 {&PROJECT} Display the project name.
 {&EXECUTIONTIME} Display the execution time.
 {&SERVERNAME} Display the Intelligence Server name
 {&REPORT:FILTERDETAILS} Display the filter details of that report.
 {&REPORT:PROMPTDETAILS} Display the prompt details of that report.
 {&REPORT:REPORTDETAILS} Display the report details.
 {&NOTES} Display the Report Services Document notes.
 {&Prompt1&} Display the answer of the first prompt.
 {&WEBSERVER} Display the Web server URL.
 {&TITLE} Display the Report Services Document inbox title.
 {&PROMPTXML} Display the prompt answers XML.
 {&DOCUMENTMESSAGEID} Display the message ID of the Report Services Document.
 {&REPORT:GUID} Display the GUID of that particular report.
 {&ATTRIBUTE@ELEMENTID} Display the Element ID of that attribute.
 {&ATTRIBUTE@GUID} Display the GUID of that particular attribute.

Description
Code
Sample Output
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Page number
{&PAGE}
1
The current page number
Total number of pages
{&NPAGES}
12
The total number of pages in the document or in the group’s section before page numbering restarts
Date & Time
{&DATETIME}
11/15/2003 7:10:55 PM
Current date and time, of the client computer. For PDFs, this is the date and time when the PDF was generated
You can display only the date without the time, or the month name rather than the number, and so on. 
Current user
{&USER}
Jane User
The full name, not login, of the user who generates the PDF or views the document
Document name
{&DOCUMENT}
Regional Sales Summary
The name of the document as stored in the project
Document description
{&DESCRIPTION}
Revenue and profit by region
Short description of the document
Document inbox title
{&TITLE}
Regional Sales Summary for Tuesday
The name of the document instance
If you send a document to your History List, you can rename that instance of the document. This auto text code displays that name, rather than the document name stored in the project.
Document notes
{&NOTES}
User1: 8/15/2010 10:10:10 AM: Reviewed and approved
Notes (annotations) added to the document.
For background information on notes, see .
Project name
{&PROJECT}
MicroStrategy Tutorial
The name of the project in which the document is stored
Prompts
{&PROMPT1&}
{&PROMPT2&}
:
{&PROMPTn&}
South (for example, if prompt1 is for the attribute Region)
The user's answers to each prompt in the document, identified by number
If n is greater than the number of prompts in the document, the code cannot be replaced with pertinent information. Therefore the code itself is displayed in the PDF.
Prompt details
{&PROMPTDETAILS}
Prompt 1: Region prompt
Northwest, Southwest
Prompt 2: Year
Year (ID)= 2007
Details for all the prompts in the document
You can define how this auto text code is displayed 
MicroStrategy Web Server
{&WEBSERVER}
http://localhost:8080
/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWeb
Path to the web server being used, if the document is executed in MicroStrategy Web; otherwise, the value in project configuration
Document execution time
{&EXECUTIONTIME}
The date and time the document was executed
You can display only the date without the time, or the month name rather than the number, and so on. 
To differentiate between Date and Time and Document execution time, do the following:
1Run a document and send it to the History List.
2Each time you retrieve the document from the History List, the PDF is regenerated. The Date and Time change each time, but the Document execution time does not change.

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