iPortal Parameters question

amit5094

In our application we have reports which we link it them to Actuate Iportal server, this works well for reports which dont have any user filled parameter page (using invokeSubmit=true).

The problem arises when we use user selected parameters(for e.g. Mutiselect list) in our report (where invokeSubmit=false), suppose i have a record specific Report, i would pass record_id to the report as hidden parameter(through URL) and i would also pass connection profile parameters as hidden parameters and apart from that i would have user selected parameters. In this case my hidden parameters are not passed on to the report generation page and i get an error stating compulsory hidden parameter are not defined.

[1] First of all is this the right way to do it?
[2] How do i ensure that my hidden parameters are available in the actual report page.?

This has been become a major problem since we just cannot use the iportal parameters screen

The report works fine in BIRT viewers, gives problem in iPortal only..
iPortal 9 SP3
BIRT 2.2

Chezy

Amit,
You are seeing the error message because the hidden parameter values in the URL is not propagated for report generation. This is a known issue that is fixed in release 10.

For 9SP3, you have these two workarounds:
1> You can specify all the values in the URL for both hidden and visible parameters.
2> For hidden parameters you can set the value in report so that at generation time, this value is used.