The BI Beans JSP tags can be grouped into the following categories:
Common tags -- Tags that appear on all JSP pages for BI Beans
Explorer tags -- Tags that allow you to browse the BI Beans Catalog
Thin Presentation tag and customizer tags -- Tags that display a presentation or allow the manipulation of a presentation
Thin dialog tags -- Tags that initialize, display, or appear in thin dialogs to perform actions such as exporting, saving, or printing a presentation
The BIBeans common JSP tags are as follows:
BIThinSession -- Stores initialization information for each page
Render -- Renders a specified thin presentation bean
InsertHiddenFields -- Adds hidden fields to the generated HTML form
The BIBeans Explorer JSP tags are as follows:
ExplorerDetail -- Browses a specified root folder in the BI Beans Catalog and provides the ability to search for and select an object
ExplorerQuickSearch -- Provides an alternative approach for displaying search controls for an ExplorerDetail tag
ExplorerTree -- Browses a tree file structure
SearchTool -- Provides the same display as an ExplorerDetail tag (Present in the current release only for backward compatibility)
The BIBeans JSP tags for thin presentations and their customizers are as follows:
Presentation -- Creates an instance of a thin presentation bean
Toolbar -- Provides tools for manipulating a thin presentation bean including the FavoriteTool, RotateTool, SortTool, and ViewType
FavoriteTool -- Applies favorite selections to a thin presentation bean without using the ViewToolbar
RotateTool -- Manipulates the layout of dimensions on a thin presentation bean without using the ViewToolbar
SortTool -- Sorts the dimensions on a thin presentation bean without using the ViewToolbar
ViewType -- Changes the type of a thin presentation bean between thin Crosstab and thin Graph without using the ViewToolbar
The BIBeans JSP tags that are used for thin dialogs are as follows:
DialogLink -- Creates a button that initializes a thin dialog
ApplyButton -- Creates a button for use in any of the thin dialogs
CancelButton -- Creates a button for use in any of the thin dialogs
SaveButton -- Creates a button for use in saving a presentation bean
ExportOptions -- Displays a thin dialog to export a thin table or thin crosstab
FindMember -- Displays additional members of a dimension for selection in the page control of a thin presentation bean
PrintOptions -- Displays a thin dialog to print a thin presentation bean
PrinterFriendlyView -- Displays a printable version of a presentation
SaveAs -- Displays a thin dialog to save a thin presentation bean
SaveConfirmation -- Displays a thin dialog to prompt for confirmation during the save of a thin presentation bean
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