Much awaited feature 🙂
Starting with MicroStrategy 10.3 Secure Enterprise Platform, embedded HTML tags in text fields and HTML containers can be rendered when exporting from Report Services Documents or Visual Insight dashboards to PDF. The following HTML tags are supported:
- Font Name
- Font size
- Font color
- Paragraph style <p> (Normal, H1, H2 etc. headers)
- Font style (bold, italic, underline)
- Align text (left, center, right, justify)
- Indenting
- Outdenting
- Emphasized text <em>
- Important text <strong>
This feature is not enabled by default. To enable this feature, a registry edit is required. Users should be sure to make a backup of the Windows registry or MSIReg.reg file before performing any modifications.
For Windows environments (including MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and MicroStrategy Desktop):
1. Stop the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server (or Desktop application)
2. Open the Windows Registry Editor
3. Add a new key “Export Engine” at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicroStrategyDSS Suite
4. Add a new DWORD called “Support HTML Tag” with a value of 1 to the new key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicroStrategyDSS SuiteExport Engine
5. Save and close the registry.
6. Start the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server (or Desktop application)
For Linux/UNIX environments (MicroStrategy Intelligence Server only):
1. Stop the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
2. Open the MSIReg.reg file in a text editor (this file is located in the <MSTR_HOME> folder; /var/opt/MicroStrategy/ by default)
3. Locate the following entry:
3. Locate the following entry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrategyDSS SuiteEnterprise Manager]
4. Add a new entry below the existing [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrategyDSS SuiteEnterprise Manager] entry as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrategyDSS SuiteExport Engine]
"Support HTML Tag"=dword:00000001
5. Save and close the MSIReg.reg file
6. Start the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
For Mac environments (MicroStrategy Desktop only):
1. Exit the MicroStrategy Desktop app completely
2. Right-click the app and click “show package contents”
3. Find MSIReg.reg in the Contents folder and open it in a text editor
3. Find MSIReg.reg in the Contents folder and open it in a text editor
4. Locate the following entry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrategyDSS Suite]
5. Add a new entry below the existing [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrateg yDSS Suite] entry as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicroStrategyDSS SuiteExport Engine]
"Support HTML Tag"=dword:00000001
6. Save and close the MSIReg.reg file
7. Launch the app
7. Launch the app