Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

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 ...