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Opening Documents in a New Browser Window

When you click a document link on a Folder Browsing page, the default behavior is for the document results to be displayed within the MicroStrategy Web application in the same browser window.  

In this customization scenario, you modify the event associated with clicking a document link so that the document results are displayed in a new browser window.

This customization can be accomplished using either of the following methods:

Deploying the plug-in provided with MicroStrategy SDK

MicroStrategy SDK provides a plug-in (ZIP file) that can simply be extracted to thepluginsfolder to view the customization in MicroStrategy Web. The following steps guide you in locating the plug-in and deploying it. 

  1. Access the plug-in: JSP version or ASP .NET version. 

  2. Extract the plug-in to the plugins subfolder inside the MicroStrategy Web installation folder.   

  3. Launch MicroStrategy Web to view the customization.

Using the Web Customization Editor to create a plug-in

MicroStrategy SDK provides a Web Customization Editor that can be used to create a customization plug-in. The following steps guide you in creating the plug-in and deploying it. 

  1. Launch the Web Customization Editor. 

  2. Click on MicroStrategy Web Configuration inside the Application Settings view to expand the hierarchical tree. The expanded list comprises the different settings that can be modified to perform customizations. 

  3. Click on Styles in the Web Customization Editor to expand the list of styles used in MicroStrategy Web. 

  4. Double-click the FolderStyleIcon style. 

  5. Click the Style Parameters tab at the bottom in the right frame. 

  6. Click Add. 

  7. Select execTarget and click >>. 

  8. Click OK. 

  9. Select execTarget and enter _blank in the Value text field. 

  10. Save your changes. 

  11. Add the execTarget parameter with the _blank value as described above for the following styles: FolderStyleList, HistoryListStyle, NCSubscriptionsListStyle and NCSubscriptionsIconStyle. 

  12. Save your changes. 

  13. Launch MicroStrategy Web to view the customization.