rptconfig on tomcat

All, 
As per <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/11880-rptconfig-update-webviewer.html#post36662'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/11880-rptconfig-update-webviewer.html#post36662</a> the .rptconfig is specific to the report designer perspective in eclipse. 
 
Has anyone extended it so that it can be used on deployed instances? 
I'm viewing my reports on a tomcat instance, it would be of great help if I can have those .rptconfig files on the server. 
 
Any kind of help or pointers will be very much appreciated. 
 
Thanks 
Rakesh

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Virgil Dodson

Hi Rakesh, what kind of functionality are you trying to achieve?... just remembering the last entered value for a particular user? One idea might be to have your own parameter page where you can use cookies or similar functionality.

mailtorake

Hi vdodson,
Thanks a lot for your quick response.
Let me explain what I've trying to do:

I have a listbox with multi value selection enabled and couple of text boxes on my parameter page. Once user enters all the input parameters and runs the report, I display a master page, from which user can drill down up to 4-5 levels. I want to remember the initial values so that user can always come back to the initial master page without having to face the parameter dialog once again: it's kinda similar to what happens on eclipse, where a .rptconfig file gets generated and will be used by default, once created.

Could you elaborate on the cookies part please?

Thanks
rakesh

Virgil Dodson

The cookies idea was if you were creating your own JSP page to collect the parameters... then you could store away the users entered values into browser cookies for next time. In either case, the functionality to hold on the previously used parameter values is not built into the Viewer today so you have to do some development to pull it off anyway. If you application held these values for a user, then you could pass them direclty to the BIRT report in the viewer and have it bypass the parameter collection screen.

mailtorake

Previously, I had an issue making the <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/designing-birt-reports/18037-caching-bookmarks-drill-through-reports.html#post58566'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/designing-birt-reports/18037-caching-bookmarks-drill-through-reports.html#post58566</a> to work, but now I got it working, so I won't need the .rptconfig file since I remember the urls for generated reports. 
Thanks vdodson and Jason. 
 
Rakesh