Web Beans

In MicroStrategy, Web Beans are simply Java beans. Beans are simply blocks of MicroStrategy data which enable you to bring MicroStrategy data onto the page.

Beans can have the following characteristics: name, type, source (including request parameters, name of enumeration constant, constant, preference, browser setting, and feature), and value.

Applications of Web Beans

Consider that your company wants to restrict the end report users from accessing the full functionality of the Report Execution page. Instead, end-users should be restricted to viewing the report results only. The steps to do this are as follows:

1. Create a new plug-in called EmbedSingleReport

2. Duplicate the report (Report Execution) page to create the beansExercise page

3. Modify the first link in the exerciseLinks.jsp file so that it uses the following anchor tag:

         <a href="mstrWeb?pg=beansExercise&reportID=271209CD11D3EA25C000B3B2D8
         6C964F">Embed a Single Report on a Page</a> 
   

4. Verify...