In business intelligence development studio I create a new report against the TFS OLAP cube. Now from everything I have seen online this report should contain 3 tabs in report building functionality (Preview, Layout and Data).
Is there a specific version where creating a new report would have different tabs. I am currently seeing Design & Preview only. No layout and no Data tabs. All of the report walkthroughs I have seen start from the data tab, manipulating dimensions etc.
Has anyone ran into this before, how do you resolve?
A more specific question would be - What version of BIDS contains the full functionality I am desiring here.
The design has been changed in BIDS 2008.
Fix: in design, View >> Report Data (Ctrl+Alt+D)
Here you can create the dataset, datasource and parameters.
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BIRT Report - using Library as basis for report design files, adding new Report Parameter not reflected in all report design files.
I designed several report parameters into my library file and created 40+ report designs from it. Now I'm adding a couple new report parameters to the Library file that I'd like to see in all of my Birt Reports. If I open a report design file, Eclipse signals me that the library changed if I modify something on the Master Page, but not when I add a new Report parameter to the library file. Is this a defect or do I have to got to each and every report and add the new report parameters manually?
I saw that for individual Report parameters while editing the report design, there is a button in the Properties (bottom window) to "Restore Properties from the original library item", if it were manually overridden in the report, but nothing to reflect additional parameters.
Here is my library outline showing my parameters missing from the report; followed by what my report reflects.
Library Report parameters
Design shows missing Report parameters
... Is this a defect or do I have to got to each and every report and add the new report parameters manually?
This is intended.
You'll have to add each parameter manually.
A BIRT library is a collection of items like layout items, data sets, data sources, report parameters etc.
A BIRT report is more or less the same, the difference being that a report has a body.
Individual items in the report can reference library items.
But there is no such thing like an "item group" - which you would need.
But if you have a lot of reports and a lot of new parameters, you can use the BIRT design engine API (DE API) to open the reports and add the parameters programmatically. Since examples for using the DE API are rare, doing it manually will probably be faster than creating a program for this. Aapprox. 3min x 40 reports = 2h for doing it manually, developing a program will take you at least twice as long, but could be useful in the future.
I have a simple report in Crystal to develop. The business sends me the SQL, I copy and paste, and create 1 prompt. Easy. It's actually a duplicate of an existing report, but the join criteria is modified a bit to look at a different set of purchase orders.
So when I run my new report locally where I developed it, in SAP Crystal Reports developer, it runs perfectly and looks the way it needs to: 9 columns w/headers, all displaying data for each row.
When I run that same report in SAP Business Objects on the web (which is where the business runs it), 3 of the the 9 columns have the header but no data.
I originally thought it was because I simply took the existing report, updated the SQL, and did a "save as"... I thought something may have gotten wonky in the metadata (it's happened before). So I built it from scratch and still the same problem. I've also tried just pulling on only those fields. Shows up in developer, but not on the web.
Here's what it looks like in developer for me locally: https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKSI2.png
And here's what it looks like on the web:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/COzZS.png
Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?
I'm pretty new to JasperReports, Jaspersoft Studio, and JasperServer but I've got a JasperServer instance up and running and have been using it to create reports from Ad Hoc views. This works well but I'd like to make some report templates so that reports run from JasperServer can have branded headers/footers etc.
I worked through this tutorial and was able to create what I thought was a fine template but when I try export it as a JasperServer template I get all sorts of validation warnings and indeed trying to run reports using it from the server results in errors.
Here's an example of the warnings I'm seeing:
The style ChartValueAxisTickFormat was not found in the template
And the errors I get on the server when trying to use these templates look like those described here. I have tried using templates without any text fields or variables though. In fact, the unexpected tokens it complains about are usually actual field ids... do I need to anticipate the fields that would be used when creating a template? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having templates for reports created from ad hoc views?
Anyway, there's quite a lot of information out there around creating templates for Jaspersoft Studio (iReport) reports but not a whole lot on templates for JasperServer reports.
It seems like there's something fundamental about templates for JasperServer reports that I'm missing. I'd appreciate any help with either the issues I am describing or being pointed toward better documentation for creating these templates specifically.
Edit:
I'm using Jasper Studio Profession 5.5.0.final on the desktop and a Jaspersoft BI Professional for AWS 5.5 instance as the server.
Report Template as in tutorial you have linked are for Jaspersoft Studio / static reports only. Adhoc templates are different types of objects which are described here
I have encountered the same errors, and I have solved it by simply adding a styles to my report, in other words:
In the outline of your report, Right click on Style -> create Style, then just change the name of the style by each name of missing styles apperead (for example, ChartValueAxisTickFormat).
After creation of 55 styles in your report template in jasper Soft Studio, save the report, then export it as report template.
I hope this will help you.
I have to create a Web Application using Eclipse Birt, and Apache Tomcat to have it on line.
One report will include a table and a chart, both taking data from MongoDB.
While I succeeded in designing a simple report that accepts parameters from Eclipse Birt suite (based on the tutorials on the Eclipse website), I have troubles in handling a more complex report.
Actually, I wish to create a dynamic filter on-the-fly operating on a single column (i.e. "country") where i can choose the different values (i.e. "USA", "UK"...) and then have the rest of the data visualized in the report be refreshed correspondingly.
I also wish to place the filters in a different section of the report (header or footer...) in the same web page, and not have them chosen before opening the report like the parameters of Eclipse Birt.
Said it differently, I would like to have lookup-fields in the header of the report, to automatically filter the data displayed, so to refresh the query behind the report.
May be the solution could to integrate a report built with Eclipse Birt and MongoDB in a Dynamic Web Application using Eclipse too? Or in a GUI in Eclipse like WindowsBuilder?
Has someone faced this task and can help me?
Thank you so much,
Federico
There is not a simple 'out of the box' solution for what you are describing. But there are solutions.
The first thing to understand is that the BIRT reports as delivered via Apache Tomcat, are intended to be stagnant not dynamic. BIRT pulls the data set, then filters it and delivers it in HTML. This link describes the order of events in report creation.
As far as I am aware there is no way to actually provided the function of filtering the created report in BIRT after the report is created.
But, you can provide the illusion of a filtered report, there are two common methods.
Create multiple tables on one report, representing the display as you want it displayed, then use a button command to hide or show the appropriate tables.
Create multiple reports and have buttons the pass new parameters to a new report that opens in the same window.
There is a third approach that can be used, that gives you similar functionality. Use Cascading Parameters (right click report parameter in Outline > New Cascading Parameter Group). This of course is not the function as you envision it in your description, but can give the results you seem to be wanting.
I am using jasper reports in my project to generate html reports. But the generated reports are static. Now we want to add some interactive features in it, like simple sorting and searching of columns. This is preferably to be done the client side. How can this be achieved ? So far I have tried to embed jquery into the generated report with no luck. Does jasper report provide such kind of functionality?
Use parameters and re compile the report every time you want to filter the data.
With your meaning of the word "interactive", nope that is not possible. A report is only a report - a presentation medium that shows data in such manner that is required by the business rule. You can format data here. You can stylize it, add image and what not. A client side application is probably what you want.
Well, your exact requirement can be achieved if you publish the Jasper Reports on the Jasper Server. Once published, all your reports become interactive (For Charts, you must use the PRO charts and not the basic HTML charts but for tables, it works automatically.)
Once you publish it on the Jasper Server, the features that you get are:
Sort button with various types
Export the Report to many formats (PDF, XML, etc - more than 10).
Zoom IN and Zoom Out.
Bubble for your charts making them interactive, etc.
Yes, interactivity is possible in Jasper Reports, but the thing is that you need a Jasper Server Pro or Enterprise version for achieving this. If you are using a community version, it is impossible to create interactive reports. You can download the free trail pro version of jasper server for 60 days from this link https://www.jaspersoft.com/download
For much more details go through this link https://www.jaspersoft.com/community-commercial
Choose according to your requirement.