Booklet

Hi,

i'm starting to work with BIRT and currently guessing if and how it is possible to get more than one chart into one document (.doc).

i tried to create a few charts in one rptdesign and exported it to word, but the problem is it look very ugly, because the pagebreaks come whereever the page is full. is it possible to somehow define pagebreakes myself, so that after each chart for instance one is done

Or maybe it is possible to put like 5 designs into one document?

Greetings

Michael

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frag_me

is there realy no solution for that?

mwilliams

Hi Michael,

If you click on your chart and go down to the page break section of the property editor, you can set the "After" setting to "Always". This will force a page break after each chart.

Hope this helps.

frag_me

works fine. so thank you very much.

still the better solution would be to put some rptdesigns into one "booklet".

lets say i want to give a customer a document with 20 different charts in it and a little bit text, maybe a cover sheet and so on. the next customer wants these 20 + 5 different reports.

each report also has some parameters, so its really anoying if i had to create a new rptdesign for each customer. in addition, the report parameters could get very overcrowded, if i store some parameters for each chart in one rptdesign.

mwilliams

Michael,

You'd have to explain more about all the report designs and options for customers for me to suggest anything to simplify your designs. You can use parameters/grouping to use the same report designs for different customers if they're looking for the same data. Let me know more about your application and I'll see if I can suggest anything.

frag_me

Hi again, 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="mwilliams">
Let me know more about your application and I'll see if I can suggest anything.</blockquote>
 
actually there is currently no application, i wanted to know, if there is a (commercial) solution from actuate or so available. 
 
a solution, another tool provides are these "booklets". there you can define within an rtf document special tags which the tool interpretes. something like 
<report name=my first report> 
<parameter name=customer>Coca Cola</paramater> 
<parameter name=group by>Month</parameter> 
</report> 
then the Application takes those tags ... executes the report and fills the result into the booklet template. Of course it is also possible to schedule such a booklet to get it on a monthly basis for instance. 
 
Like this i can present my reports in a document with all the posibilities .rtf offers me. 
 
of course i could programm such a solution myself, because birt has an api, but i wanted to know, if there might be a solution already available. 
It doesn't have to be exactly like this, but the possibilities of document formatting in birt seems to be limited. 
 
ps.: my name is michael, i just had a writing mistake in my first post