I am fairly new to BIRT and I am working on adding some new functionality to one of our existing reports.
We have an application that makes a call to BIRT to generate the report in question. When this report is generated I would like to include a URL at the bottom of the report.
The only issue is that the URL would contain two parameters that are different for each report that gets generated. I created a data source and a data set that I can pull the parameters from, but I am not sure how to create a URL with the parameters that relate to the particular report that is being generated.
I have read that you can create a label and insert a hyperlink, but this doesn't seem to be of much help in my situation.
The URL that gets inserted into the report would need to look as follows:
localhost:8080/Application?key=firstParameter&securityString=secondParameter
Please let me know if I did not explain my situation thoroughly or if you need more clarification.
Best Regards,
-Dave
There are multiple ways to do this.
For example insert a new "Data" element to the report, set the datatype to "String" and enter as expression the text you want to display, i.e. "My URL" (with quotes because it is an expression).
Then click on "Binding" tab of this data element and select your dataset. Answer no to the question "Do you want to clear existing binding". In the popup, select all columns required to build the URL.
Finally use hyperlink property of the data element. May be you missed it can be an expression:
This pops up an expression builder, in your case this would result in something like:
"localhost:8080/Application?key="+row["firstParameter"]+"&securityString="+row["secondParameter"]
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I have question about Lotus Note. I have form: http://i.stack.imgur.com/YWii6.jpg
In this form I need create bottom. With this buttom user can add new row with input field in this row to existing table. I find that kind of lotusscript from:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVRGU_9.0.1/com.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc/H_EXAMPLES_ADDROW_METHOD_RTTABLE.html
But when I this script copied to this form, I get error "Object variable no set"
Then I tried this solotion:
LotusNotes 8.5 - Adding a row to a table with a button
And I again get the same error.
Can anybody tell me please, how I can create new row and input field in this row, when I pressed buttom "Add row"?
You can't make a table with a dynamic amount of rows in a Lotus Notes Form. There are two common ways to solve this:
Use child-documents; one document for each row; and show these documents using an embedded view. This is the most elegant imho.
Create a large, fixed-elements table, and hide the rows that are not needed (for instance, by checking the presence of an input in the preceding row. This is OK for small amounts of row, but performance starts getting bad if you have too many rows.
It seems you are a bit confused as to the difference between a form (your picture) and a document (the code you link). Also, you definitely need to understand the meaning of "Object variable not set", which is the most common error when you use Lotusscript.
Anyhow, where to go from here depends on how you plan using the data once it is input. Will it be edited ? Will each row need to be handled as a separate record ?
I have been using the content report table macro, which has been working. Ideally, I only want to list content matching certain labels, and lock in an alphabetical sort order and not show the content author.
I have not been successful in figuring out a way to do this just yet.
Is there a way to just edit the source code for that macro and create a "new one"? I'm struggling to find any useful documentation out there.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
I was also interested on doing this some days ago. Unfortunately, the Content Report Table Macro only have very limited parameters which are very strict. However, the way I succeeded to display only certain properties from the pages and present them in a tabular way (in Confluence 5.8) was with the combination of the macros Page Properties and Page Properties Report, both of them linked by a unique label. I'll break it down below.
Outcome:
1. Set up of properties you want to track
Create a page.
Add the Page Properties macro (no need to specify an ID)
Within the macro just add a table with all the properties you need to keep track of, similar to this:
Important, this is what links the two macros together: Add a label to the recently created page.
2. Display properties in main page
Add Page Properties Report macro. Specify label used across all the already created pages. Also specify the space (I just love this part). In here you also add custom fields (some fields from Content Reports are here). In Options you can specify which properties to display (columns to show), also the sorting order (in my case I'm sorting by the property ID that I added to each page).
Note: if you just want to remove the content author this can even be done easier: no need to add any property, just specify the label of your pages and add the fields you need to show and sorting order.
Hope this helps.
I wanted to create a JasperReport which asks the user for a deliverer before it creates a report with data of the last the deliveries of the selected deliverer.
The problem, how I can do that? I found only examples where a parameter is created and the ArrayList is filled statically. But in my parameter I need the query result over the table of deliverers filled.
Can anybody tell me a possible solution?
I'm using Jaspersoft Server 5.1 which directly access a PostgreSQL database which has a datawarehouse structur. So it's not possible to use Java code.
Here is the documentation for adding input controls to reports in JasperReports Server:
http://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation/jasperreports-server-user-guide/adding-input-controls
Scroll down to the section that deals with query-based input controls. Your input control will have a name, such as deliverer. In your report, you must add deliverer as a parameter and reference it in your query, as you have done in your comment.
I need to create a table that will be inserted as HTML code in a web page.
I have created a table but I cannot find any information/documentation of what should I do to be able to sort ASC or DESC by clicking on the column's headers.
I've been able to find the SORT component in the palette (Web Framework category) but I would need someone to explain how it must be used, and I also tried by adding the SORT BY options by editing the data-source's query. All I got was the report sorted correctly, but the ▲ symbol in the header is just a character (while clicking it, no action is performed).
What I need to do is to be able to sort by some of the columns dynamically, I will appreciate any help that could be given to me.
I am trying to create a crystal report, but I want the connection string that I have mentioned in the Web.Config file to be accessed. Also, I want to create an xsd file for my crystal report file to refer. Can someone please direct me to a tutorial or forum to solve my problem?
Thank you all for helping me out.
I am now able to display data in the crystal report file using the XSD file.
The xsd file has fields which are exactly the same name as mentioned in the select query that is bringing values from DB.
The following is the part of the xsd file that contains the field names in the xs:element tag.
The datatypes of these fields , also needs to be mentioned. The XSD file name can be kept as desired.
The name "Summary_Report_on_portal" and "Summary_Updt" does not correspond to any dataset name in code behind or query fields. It can be kept as per the user's wish.
This XSD file needs to be referred into the crystal report, using the Database Expert in the Field Explorer window. The "Summary_Updt" name is visible in the new connections , which can be added to the crystal report.
The fields mentioned in the xs:element field are visible for the user to drag and drop into the crystal report.
When the user mentions the data source to the crystal report(dataset), the fields in the dataset are matched with the XSD field values.
CODE:
objBL.Rpt.SetDataSource(objBL.ds_shipment_info.Tables[0]);
Hope this is detailed enough. Let me know if anyone wants more info
you can also programatically set the report data source if you need to - I can provide details if you require
between calling myReportDocument.Load("myreport.rpt") and myReportDocument.Refresh() (the latter of which actually gets the data from the database) it is possible to add a call to myReportDocument.SetDataSource(myDataSource) which takes an object of data source type, which you can create, with a call to its constructors, with the URL of the data source you wish to use, its username and password.
Hope this helps
a different way would be to call ReportDocument::SetDatabaseLogon (String * user, String * password, String * server, String * database); before Refresh(); if you don't want to reuse a connection. This has the benefit of being simple but means that you dont reuse data sources.