Updating Birt reorts in IBM RAD 7.5.3???

kiranv · 2010-03-19T08:12:21+00:00

Hello All, I am trying to open my birt reports created in eclipse in IBM RAD 7.5.3 and it is throwing the exception - "The report file of version 3.2.20 is not supported". I can understand that I need to update the BIRT version of IBM RAD 7.5. The question is to how to UPDATE? I tried updating…

kiranv

Hello All,

I am trying to open my birt reports created in eclipse in IBM RAD 7.5.3 and it is throwing the exception - "The report file of version 3.2.20 is not supported".

I can understand that I need to update the BIRT version of IBM RAD 7.5. The question is to how to UPDATE?

I tried updating from IBM RAD Software updates and entered the URL "http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/2.5" and then "http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/" in the ADD SITE.
However both returned an exception of "No repository found at http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/2.5".

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Please help

Thanks in advance,
Kiran

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mdhau

I tried to update other eclipse plug-ins and getting the same error. Please suggest if one solved this update problem.

cchew

Hey there, 
 
We have the same issue where we are using RAD 7.5.5 and wanting to use BIRT 2.5.2 features. 
 
From the <a class='bbc_url' href='http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT_Update_Site_URL'>BIRT website</a> it seems that 2.3.x is the latest version supported on the Eclipse 3.4 platform. 
 
RAD 7.5.x is using Eclipse 3.4 which might be why we are struggling to update to later versions of BIRT? 
 
As a workaround, we are currently modifying the source XML to support 2.5.2 features (but not changing the report version so that it still works in RAD 7.5.5) since we are running on 2.5.2 Report Engine API. It just means our preview in RAD is not 100% accurate. 
 
One other option if your organisation is up for it is to use base Eclipse with <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.myeclipseide.com/blue.php'>MyEclipse Blue</a> if you need say the ClearCase plugin or other RAD features. 
 
Another option that I have not tried is dumping the BIRT 2.5.2 plugins+features straight into the /SDPShared folder and removing the RAD provided ones. 
 
Or we can always use the <a class='bbc_url' href='http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/'>BIRT RCP Designer</a> just for BIRT designing and RAD for other needs. 
 
Cheers! 
Ching