Using custom images in your reports - what is best practice?

system_migrated

Hi,

If you want to use your own images (logos, background images for table cells etc), what is the best way to manage these so that when you deploy your report to tomcat, you dont need to go and get the image files over to a subfolder of tomcat aswell?

I have a directory called myReports which contains all my ".rptdesgin" files and I created a sub-dir within this called "Resources" into which I placed the images that are used within the report.
This is the folder that eclipse will save to.

The problem is, the instructions on how to deploy a report into tomcat only tell you to put the .rptdesign file in the "apache-tomcat-6.0.26webappsbirt-viewer" directory. Every time I add a new image to the report, I have to copy the resources dir over to the tomcat folder as well. Im sure there is a better way to do this.

In a nutshell, deploying a changed verson of the report to tomcat involves dragging alot of stuff over each time. I would like to know how others do this.

Thanks
-Tommy

mwilliams

Hi Tommy,

You could try using embedded images rather than calling them from a resource folder.