Displaying real-time web and other HTML content: HTML containers

You can display real-time information from the web, directly in your document. For example, you can display a stock ticker running in real time next to a Grid/Graph displaying a MicroStrategy report and interactive graphs displaying your corporate financial data. You can interact with the web from the document, such as changing the stock that is being tracked in the stock ticker or clicking links on the web page.

You can achieve this real-time display by adding an HTML container to your document and entering the URL of the website. For instructions, see Displaying a website using a URL (iFrame). You can also use an HTML container to display formatted HTML, by entering HTML tags into the HTML container. For an example, see Displaying formatted HTML in an HTML container.

The real-time information from the web or the formatted HTML is displayed within the HTML container, in the following modes in MicroStrategy Web:

View
Editable
Interactive

You can create HTML containers using either of the following methods:

You can display a website by typing a URL in the HTML container. The HTML is retrieved dynamically when the document is executed. For examples, see Displaying a website using a URL (iFrame).
You can display formatted HTML by entering HTML tags in the HTML container. The HTML tags are interpreted by the user's browser when the document is executed. For an example, see Displaying formatted HTML in an HTML container.

You can format the HTML container itself, with borders and drop shadows, for instance. For examples and instructions, see Formatting HTML containers. The formatting of actual content inside the HTML container, however, is determined by either the HTML tags or the website displayed by the URL.

You can also arrange and resize HTML containers, as you do other control types. For instructions and examples, see the following: