Customizing Report Viewer

shikaris

I am trying to integrate BIRT into my jetspeed portal application and would like to see if there is way to customize the report viewer to support

1. Explorer - that lists all available reports (listing or dropdown)
2. Parameter - no dialog - but on the page - provide user a way to input parameters
3. Custom icons - for export/render and print

Are there any examples of similar efforts?

TIA

A_Fejer

Hello shikaris,<br />
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I'm not sure if there are any examples that might help you with your problems, because I only started working with BIRT a short time ago, but I hope that I can help you.<br />
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'shikaris'" data-cid="68029" data-time="1283369536" data-date="01 September 2010 - 12:32 PM"><p>
1. Explorer - that lists all available reports (listing or dropdown)</p></blockquote>
You could create an HTML page with a list of the reports you want to use.<br />
The entries should have a link to the URL of the report.<br />
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'shikaris'" data-cid="68029" data-time="1283369536" data-date="01 September 2010 - 12:32 PM"><p>
2. Parameter - no dialog - but on the page - provide user a way to input parameters</p></blockquote>
If you are using the BIRT WebViewer, you can add the value of a paramter by adding it to the URL<br />
Example: <br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>http://localhost:8080/birt-viewer/frameset?__report=Report\ParameterToDataSetParameter.rptdesign&OrderNumber=10100</pre>
In this case OrderNumber is the parameter name and '10100' the parameter value.<br />
I didn't manage to use this method with cascaded parameters, when I tried to use the cascaded.rptdesign example provided by Eclipse BIRT.<br />
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If you are using the genReport.bat btach-file from the BIRT runtime, you can write a batch-file to take care of the parameter input. Here's an example:<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>ECHO off
IF not %1 == "" && %2 =="" GOTO runGenerator
ECHO "Please add both parameters."
GOTO end
:runGenerator

Set BIRT_HOME=C:\Programme\birt-runtime-2_5_2\
set p1=%1
set p2=%2
C:\Programm\birt-runtime-2_5_2\ReportEngine\genReport.bat --format PDF --output c:\Programme\birt-runtime-2_5_2\ReportEngine\samples\output2.pdf --parameter "customer=%p1%" --parameter "order=%p2%" C:\Programme\birt-runtime-2_5_2\ReportEngine\samples\cascade.rptdesign</pre>
I attached the 2 example Report-Design files from Eclipse BIRT.<br />
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'shikaris'" data-cid="68029" data-time="1283369536" data-date="01 September 2010 - 12:32 PM"><p>
3. Custom icons - for export/render and print</p></blockquote>
You can replace the icons in the image directory of the viewer. In BIRT Eclipse you can find the directory here:<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>... \eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.5.0.v20090520\birt\webcontent\birt\images\</pre>
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If you are using the viewer from that comes with BIRT Runtime package then you will find the images using the following path:<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>... \WebViewerExample\webcontent\birt\images</pre>
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If you would like to change the color of the BIRT Viewer toolbar and navigation bar, then you will find the the sytles.css file in the following directory:<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>... \WebViewerExample\webcontent\birt\styles\</pre>
The toolbar color is in the line 301 and the navigation bar color is in the line 318.