This is a very common requirement from the users but
unfortunately this feature is not available in Microstrategy till version 10.2.
As this was a critical requirement for the business we tried different ways to
implement this with the help of some workarounds. Finally one particular
implementation was very similar to the actual requirement and the client also
liked the idea. Steps are as follows
1. Create a
simple textbox and named it after the required filter field.
2. Create a
panel stack and marked it as information window. Information window is an
in-built functionality in MSTR. It’s exactly like normal panel stack but it’s
not visible by default. We have to target this information window from some
other object like textbox, grid, graph etc so that when user clicks the object
the panel stack appears as a pop-up.
3. Add the
required checkbox filter inside the information window.
4. Target the
information window from the text box created in step 1.
Now when the user clicks on the filter text box a popup
appears containing the multi select checkbox filter.
We can also
utilize the additional space we got in the pop-up by adding multiple related
filters in it.
