Adding Properties to a Bean

This topic provides step-by-step instructions on adding initialization and request properties the instance of a bean class on a MicroStrategy Web page.

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 Pages to expand the list of pages used in MicroStrategy Web. 

4. Expand the appropriate page to display the Beans and CSS folders. 

5. Click on Beans to display the list of beans used on that page. 

6. Double-click the bean to which you wish to add the property. The Bean Properties tab of the page is displayed. 

7. Select either the Initialization Properties or the Request Properties tab, depending on the property you wish to add to the bean. 

8. Click Add... to open the Add Elementsshopping cart to select the new property to add to the bean. 

9. Select the properties you wish to add and click OK. 

10. Click the entries in the Type, Source, and Value fields to add or modify the properties. 

11. Save your changes.

After you have completed this task, you must restart the application server for changes to take effect, unless the reloadConfigurationFiles property in microstrategy.xml is set to true. See Applying Customization Changes for information on changing the value of the reloadConfigurationFiles property.