parameters under the chart, not popup

I'm new to BIRT and trying to replicate the behavior of an existing report written in ASP .Net and a third party charting control. I'm need to have two drop down lists above or below the chart, not in a pop-up dialog as is normally what happens when you create parameters. Is there anyway to do this? My plan is to take those parameters and pass them to my XML data source.

Thanks in advance

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mwilliams

So, you're wanting to have a selection of parameters underneath your chart for the user to select from and then reload the report with the new paramters? Are the parameters dynamic or static?

richardm

Exactly. The paramaters would be dynamic in that they would be queried from a table.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT/FAQ/Report_Parameters talks about a parameter API, but I'm presuming that's only applicable if I embed the report into an application, or web page, which is our intent... but I'd like to see if it could be done within the report so that there's no external dependency/interaction.

Thanks in advance.

mwilliams

You might be able to do this with an HTML type text element where you build all of the parameter dropdowns in HTML using the <value-of> tag. Then you'd have a "submit" button that would hyperlink to the report again with the updated parameters.