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Redeploying and Configuring the Web Customization Editor

This topic illustrates how to redeploy and configure the Web Customization Editor. It assumes that you already have a successful deployment of the Web Customization Editor.

For your convenience, the instructions below provide some general guidelines in instances where they may facilitate the installation and configuration process. However, depending on the version of Eclipse that you have installed, these guidelines may or may not be precisely the same as those provided by Eclipse. The Eclipse web site provides the most current instructions for downloading and installing the software, and the Eclipse documentation provides instructions for creating and configuring an Eclipse project.

Redeploying the Web Customization Editor

  1. Close the Web Customization Editor. 

  2. Navigate to the plugins subfolder inside your eclipse installation folder (for example: C:\eclipse-SDK-x.x.x.x-win32\eclipse\plugins) and delete com.microstrategy.web.sdk.webcustomization.jar. 

  3. Navigate to the Eclipse installation folder (for example: C:\eclipse-SDK-win32\eclipse), and double-click on eclipse.exe to launch Eclipse. 

  4. Ignore all error messages related to the Web Customization Editor and close Eclipse.

    This opening and closing of Eclipse is required by certain versions of Eclipse to forcefully delete the cached files of the Web Customization Editor.

  5. Navigate to the MicroStrategy SDK installation folder and access the Web Customization Editor plug-in installed inside the tools\WebCustomizationEditor subfolder. 

  6. Unzip and extract com.microstrategy.web.sdk.webcustomization.zip to the eclipse subfolder inside your Eclipse installation folder. This extracts the JAR file, com.microstrategy.web.sdk.webcustomization.jar, into the eclipse\plugins subfolder inside the Eclipse installation folder. 

  7. Navigate to the Eclipse installation folder, and double-click on eclipse.exe to launch Eclipse.

The Web Customization Editor opens with the views (Application Settings and/or CSS Settings) that were visible prior to deleting com.microstrategy.web.sdk.webcustomization.jar. The configuration settings that were defined as MicroStrategy Preferences for the previous version of the Web Customization Editor are automatically used by the redeployed version of the Web Customization Editor. If you wish to reconfigure the Web Customization Editor, follow the steps below.

Reconfiguring the Web Customization Editor

  1. Launch the Preferences dialog from Window->Preferences, and click MicroStrategy preference added on the left. 

  2. In the Application Root field under MicroStrategy location and URL settings, browse to the root folder where MicroStrategy Web is installed. 

  3. In the MicroStrategy Web URL field under MicroStrategy location and URL settings, enter the URL for launching MicroStrategy Web.

    • NET:

      Copy 
      http://webserver/MicroStrategy/asp/Main.aspx

    • J2EE:

      Copy 
      http://webserver/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWeb

  1. Click Apply. 

  2. Click OK. 

  3. If the MicroStrategy Web Customization Editor perspective is not loaded, go to Window->Open Perspective->Other, select MicroStrategy Web Customization Editor and click OK. 

The Web Customization Editor is launched with two views open— Application Settings and CSS Settings. Note that a new MicroStrategy menu is added to the default Eclipse menu.

If you close the Application Settings or the CSS Settings views and need to access them again, go to Window -> Show View, and select the appropriate view.

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