KB5401: How to set Group Prioritization in MicroStrategy Intelligence Server 9.x and 10.x?

Job Prioritization allows an administrator to prioritize a project based on Cost, User Groups, Request Type, Application Type and Projects. Perform the following steps to open the interface.

1. Log on to Strategy Developer with Administrator privileges.
2. Expand Administration > Configuration Managers
3. Click on 'Database Instance Manager'. On the right side, user can see the various database instances available. Open the database instance to be edited.
4. Select the third tab in the Database Instance window, 'Job Prioritization' as shown below. This screen shot depicts the Job Prioritization default settings.

 
 
Perform the following steps to open the 'Job Prioritization Wizard'.

• Click 'New'.
• Click 'Next' on the 'Welcome-window'.
• Select the entry or entries on which to prioritize the project as shown below.
   
  

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  For example, if users want a certain user group's job requests to be treated with a higher priority, select 'User Group' and click 'Next'.
   
   
   
  
• Select a user group from the 'Available Groups' window. Use the '>' arrow to move the selected group(s) to 'Selected Groups' on the right. Click 'Next' as shown below.
   
  

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  Users see the following window.
   
  

• By default the selected group is set to priority 'Medium'. Right-click in the field and select 'High'. Click 'Finish'.

 
Now when a user from user group 'Customer' runs a report, it will be treated with a high priority in Strategy Intelligence Server.
 
Note: If user group 'Customer' is set to 'High' and a Project entry 'Strategy Tutorial' is set to 'Low' and a user from 'Customer' requests a job from 'Strategy Tutorial', the request will be treated as 'High' priority. If a user from another user group runs the same request, it will be treated as 'Low' priority. The higher priority settings take precedence in this case.
 
Strategy Intelligence Server Project Administrator can set a number of different entries in Job Prioritization for Projects, Cost (reports), Request Type, Application Type and/or other User Groups.
Priority by Job Cost (see below) is associated with the priority factor set to each priority entry (i.e., the number of jobs per 1000 to be included in each entry.