Getting Started with Web Customizations

This section introduces the important guidelines that should be followed while performing customization tasks.

• Best Practices for Customizing Web Products
  This section provides a general overview of how to proceed with customizations. It has important information on the practices to follow which can improve your system performance and make your application easier to maintain and upgrade to later versions of MicroStrategy Web. 

• Deploying Multiple Instances of MicroStrategy Web on the Same Machine
  This section describes how to deploy multiple instances of MicroStrategy Web on the same machine (.NET environment only). 

• Setting up MicroStrategy Web using Visual Studio
  This section describes the files that must be created to set up MicroStrategy Web using Microsoft © Visual Studio (.NET environment only). 

• Debugging Java Code used in a J2EE Environment
  This topic discusses how to set up a debugging environment for your Java files from Eclipse using Tomcat as the application server. 

• Development in a .NET Environment
  Some of the customizations in this section involve writing custom code and adding custom classes. This topic provides information on the best practices and guidelines to follow when writing custom code in a .NET environment. 

• Debugging Java Code used in a .NET Environment
  This topic discusses how to set up a debugging environment for your Java files from Eclipse in a .NET environment.

The Customizations Explorer provides a shortcut to find any customization scenario in the quickest manner possible. It is recommended that you read the Best Practices for Customizing Web Products section before migrating your customizations in a production environment. This section contains information on minimizing the impact of upgrades.