SpudSoft Excel emitter from BitBucket in BIRT 4.3.0/1

Yaytay

<p>Hi All,</p><p> </p><p>Well, this is a rather embarassing question to have to ask, but has anyone managed to get a version of my emitter from BitBucket working with BIRT 4.3.0 (or 4.3.1) in the report designer?</p><p> </p><p>I don't use the report designer very much, and I have been using my emitters with 4.3.0 for some month via maven, but I cannot persuade eclipse to recognise my emitters in the main IDE.</p><p> </p><p>I've got to the point of running eclipse as:</p><p>"C:Program Fileseclipse-4.3.1eclipsec.exe"  -debug -console -vm "C:Program FilesJavajdk1.7.0_25binjava.exe"</p><p>And then doing:</p><p>osgi> ss | grep spud
false</p><p> </p><p>Which shows that it's simply not recognising my plugin at all.</p><p> </p><p>I've tried removing all references to spudsoft from any files in the original download, still no dice.</p><p> </p><p>There has to be some reference somewhere to the built-in version that's blocking the new download.</p><p>Anyone got any ideas?</p><p> </p><p>I will, of course, knock up a DevShare for this when I get it working.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks</p><p> </p><p>Jim</p>

Yaytay

<p>Ah!</p><p>Finally found it, thanks partly to lots of logging and partly to FileLocator Pro (searching in compressed files).</p><p> </p><p>In short (and I'll give more details later), search for any reference to spudsoft in any file and get rid of it (the reference, not the file).</p><p>This includes a couple of XML files, but also includes:</p><p>p2org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engineprofileRegistryepp.package.reporting.profile1380866799977.profile.gz1380866799977.profile</p><p>Where that number will change and you may have quite a few copies of it.</p><p> </p><p>You cannot simply delete that file - the initial install comes with a copy and I think that's used to seed future copies, so you have to gunzip it, edit it and then gzip it again.</p><p> </p><p>Obviously you also have to delete the exploded spudsoft emitter directory from the plugins directory, and I recommend removing the original Excel emitters too (though not the two files needed for the ODA driver).</p><p> </p><p>Finally, put the uk.co.spudsoft.birt.emitters.excel_0.8.0.201307252232.jar file into the dropins (not plugins) directory.</p><p> </p><p>I haven't yet worked out whether it uses the include copy of POI or the hacked OSGi-fied one supplied with eclipse - I think it'll be the one supplied in my jar, and that's good because if it uses the eclipse one you can't do the fast export mode for XSLX.</p><p> </p><p>Jim</p>