Flash Charts - Dynamic Regions

snowak17

Hi all,

I am using Actuate BIRT Report Designer Professional Version 2.3.2 and am wondering about the following:

I wanat to use a Flash Gadget (Gauge) and dependent on an URL parameter the upper and lower limit for the region is supposed to change.

Here is an example what it should work like:

ID = 1
then Value = 10
Region 1: 0 - 15
Region 2: 15 - 45
Region 3: 45 - 100

then someone calls report with the Flash Gauge with ID = 2

then Value = 500
Region 1: 0 - 100
Region 2: 100 - 450
Region 3: 450 - 1000

In case I have all in all 50 possible values for ID, I feel it is a lot of work, to create 50 individual flash gauges (they all have pretty different region start and end values) and also think that the performance might go down a little bit. I would rather prefer giving the Flash Gauge the values for the Regions and the value to plot and have this happening dynamically. I know this is possible in Eclipse BIRT, though there it is not a flash gauge and all the scripting in flash gauges is rather limited (at least from what I could see so far).

So in case someone has an idea how to implement this in a smart and efficient way, it would be highly appreciated.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Cheers,
snowak17

mwilliams

Hi snowak17,

Unfortunately the flash gadgets, etc. don't have scripting methods to be able to change the regions dynamically and there aren't expression builders for setting the regions within the gadget editor. In Actuate BIRT 11, which will be released mid 2010 sometime, there will be scripting methods for flash elements.