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special characters in titles

SmokesMom

We have a stand alone application that listens for report requests from other applications. The other applications pass a url string to the stand alone and it serves up the BIRT report.

I have a report that allows the user to specify a title and pass the title in as a parameter to the report design. For example: "All Properties for Period x thru z" or "A & B Property".

When I pass in an ampersand as part of the title parameter, everything after the ampersand does not appear. What can I do to make this appear correctly in the title? Is this an XML issue?

Thanks for your help,
Kris

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mwilliams

Since you're passing the value from the external app by a URL to your report application, you'll need to use URL encoding to send the &, since it's a special character in URLs. So, on your application side, where you take the title parameter in, you'll need to check the entered value for '&' and replace it with '%26' before placing it in the URL.

SmokesMom

Hello again,

I'm still struggling with this. I have a report parameter &rp_title that has a value passed in:

&rp_title=A+%26+B+Signs&rp_nextParameter...

In my expression builder for the field I have:

lTitle = reportContext.getParameterValue("rp_title");
lTitle.toString().replace("%26", "&")

My title still comes out A %26 B Signs.

I've tried doing the same thing in a persistant global variable in an onCreate, onRender, onPrepare, but I still get the same results.

Once I have the url encoded how do I decode it in the report?

Thanks again for your help.
Kris

mwilliams

Where are you trying to set this value? If I pass &rp_title=A%20%26%20B%20Signs, then in an HTML text box, put: <value-of>params["rp_title"]</value-of>. This give me A & B Signs, in the text box. Can you explain more about this?

SmokesMom

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'mwilliams'" data-cid="110309" data-time="1349806930" data-date="09 October 2012 - 11:22 AM">
Where are you trying to set this value? If I pass &rp_title=A%20%26%20B%20Signs, then in an HTML text box, put: <value-of>params["rp_title"]</value-of>. This give me A & B Signs, in the text box. Can you explain more about this? </blockquote>
 
 
Hi, thanks for your quick reply. I tried what you sent here. Still getting the same issue. Having said that, is it because I can't really test this running from within the designer and just populating the parameters in the Show Report Parameters popup? 
 
Thanks,

mwilliams

If you go to window->preferences->report design->preview and check the always use external browsers check box, you can run it in the viewer and enter the value in the query string and re-submit.

SmokesMom

Sorry - got carried away with the post button.

Thanks for the Windows Preferences tip - I wasn't aware of that.

Having said that, still no luck here.

mwilliams

What's your BIRT version? I'll make an example and have you run it in the web viewer and then add the parameter to the URL.

SmokesMom

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'mwilliams'" data-cid="110326" data-time="1349813741" data-date="09 October 2012 - 01:15 PM">
What's your BIRT version? I'll make an example and have you run it in the web viewer and then add the parameter to the URL. </blockquote>
 
Thanks again for your reply. I got it to work. I needed to add the &rp_title parameter to the url (sorry - rather brain dead sometimes) 
 
Thanks for all your help - my end-user will be pleased.

mwilliams

No worries. Happens to me, all the time!

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