How to change label text depending on DataSet value?

griniland

<p>Very new with  a Birt, so don't be angry with such a dumb question.</p><p>Actually, I went almost crazy - whole day trying and sucking the result.</p><p>NB!: please, don't offer Dynamic Text to me - it suits, but not perfect ( I've got dozen+ fields and I don't want to write expressions for each one of them).</p><p> </p><p>I've got a report form (simple Grid) and several labels with text to be replaced depending on DataSet retrieved values.</p><p>Problem is that I want to use  a function, which I placed into Report.initialize() event - that changes labels dynamically depending on argument I passed to it.</p><p>It works fine beeing test-called, for example, from Report.beforeRender() event,  but not from DataSet.onFetch  event (when I know the values I need to pass). </p><p> </p><p>Here is my function, that I try to use to cope with this task:</p><p> </p><p>function setTextLabels ( changeCriteria )</p><p>{</p><p> </p><p> reportContext.getDesingHandle().findElement("Label to replace").setText("This text I want to see instead old  one");</p><p> </p><p>}</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Could You please help me deal with this Angry Birt ? ))</p>

Hans_vd

<p>A much easier way to do this, is putting 2 labels on the report and write a visibility expression based for both of them.</p>