Work around for ordering Report Parameters

mcap

BIRT Version 2.3.1
I am looking to pull report parameters out of my report design and return them in an ordered list. Where my ordered list is ordered by a user property on each report parameter. The property I defined is "order" and I set the value 0-n on each of my parameters. After retrieving the report parameters through the BIRT API (IGetParameterDefinitionTask task = getBirtPlatform().getReportEngine().createGetParameterDefinitionTask(reportDesign);
Collection params = task.getParameterDefns(false); )

The IScalarParameterDefn interface provides a method getUserPropertyValues(). The javadoc indicates this method will return a name/value mapping of user defined properties. (Looking through my debugger I see the customProperties map contains my properties) However, looking at the BIRT source code the method getUserPropertyValues() simply returns null.

Is there an easier way to indicate to BIRT how I would like the parameters ordered?

Best Regards,
Matt

sara_criss

Its really a general question hope someone gives the right answer for that ...i really need to know also