Customizing Cell Rendering Classes

MicroStrategy Web products allows you to customize the contents of a report grid to highlight special data or introduce some level of interactivity. For example, you can add an image or a URL to the actual contents of a cell within the report grid. When you customize a cell rendering class, the class renders the desired customized output of the cell contents. The following topics are discussed:

• AbstractReportGridDisplayCell

  This topic provides detailed information about the abstract class that renders cells within a report grid in MicroStrategy Web products.

  The following topics discuss the following subclasses of AbstractReportGridDisplayCell which are responsible for displaying the various contents of a report grid. Each topic also provides a code sample for customization the content displayed by the subclass.  

  • ReportGridCellColHeaderImpl— Displays the contents in the cells of a column header of a report grid.

  • ReportGridCellRowHeaderImpl— Displays the contents in the cells of a row header of a report grid.

  • ReportGridCellColTitleImpl— Displays the contents in the cells of a column title of a report grid.

  • ReportGridCellRowTitleImpl— Displays the contents in the cells of a row title of a report grid.

  • ReportGridCellMetricValueImpl— Displays the contents in the cells for metric value of a report grid.  

• Using Custom Cell Rendering Classes

  This topic lists the steps required for using the code samples provided in the previous topics. This involves modifying a configuration file to make MicroStrategy Web use your custom classes for rendering the cell contents.