Retrieving User's Login TIMEZONE

singsing

Hi,

I've been having difficulties with retrieving user login TimeZone and apply it to date as dataset parameter.

Found solution on this forum to use reportContext.getAppContext().get("AppRuntimeTimeZone"), however,, this works onRENDER, not on Initialize before Dataset is executed. So when run the report.

What I did was
1. On Initialize retrieve Timezone by reportContext.getAppContext().get("AppRuntimeTimeZone") etc, and then
2. apply timezone to date Report Parameter on Initialize phase as well.
3. Data set parameter is linked to Report parameter; therefore, I expect by the time dataset is executed, dataset will get date parameter with correct timezone.

But it doesn't work.

Please please please kindly help to solve TimeZone issue.

thank you.
sing

mwilliams

You might try setting up a customer parameter page where you could use script to determine the timezone, then pass that value to the report through a parameter. I haven't done it, but it should be able to be done. You could possibly also modify the parameter dialog jsp page for the standard parameter page to pass this info along.

Here's a devShare that will describe how to create a custom parameter page:

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/298-2.2-birt-tag-library/