Can I customize and extend MicroStrategy Portlets?
You can customize and extend both custom MicroStrategy portlets that you build from scratch, as well as the out-of-the-box MicroStrategy portlets. With the MicroStrategy SDK, you can customize not only the look and feel of a portlet displaying MicroStrategy content, but also the interactivity, or behavior, of the content in that portlet. Potential changes to interactivity include modifying single-sign-on behavior, adding text boxes to capture additional user input, and reading and passing additional portlet properties. There are two ways to build custom MicroStrategy portlets: • Using MicroStrategy Web functionality to provide and display BI data in a portlet. This method allows you to use the full range of current and future MicroStrategy functionality. • Using the MicroStrategy platform only to provide BI data in a portlet. You work at the API level and must assume complete responsibility for data presentation. Refer to the MicroStrategy Developer Library for more information on this
