Retrieving Data and Generating Output

WebComponents are also capable of retrieving data and generating the output by sending that data to the MarkupOutput object.

The collectData() method triggers data collection from MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and the generateOutput() method sends the contained data to a MarkupOutput object for preparing the final output. The output format is picked from EnumBeanOutputFormat enumeration and can be HTML, DHTML, or Screen.

While WebComponents are capable of generating output themselves, in MicroStrategy Web products, the process of output generation by Web Beans is generally not performed by the Web Bean itself, but rather delegated to a transform.