Setting up background images on master pages dynamically

megabri

<p>I'm trying to set up a watermark/background image on one of my master pages.  It has to be dynamic though.  I have a query that gets back a status of an inspection.  If the inspection's status is CLOSED then i don't want the background image to show, otherwise it should display. I found another topic on this forum that said to put</p><p>[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;]reportContext.getReportRunnable().getDesignInstance().getMasterPage("MasterPageName").getStyle().backgroundImage = "FileLocation";[/color]</p><p>in the initialize function of my report but then I can't check the status from my query.  The aforementioned line of code only seems to work in the initialize function.  Anyone have any ideas?</p>

kclark

<p>I haven't tried either of these methods but I think the easiest solution here would be to create a computed column.  In it you could check the value of status here.  And if it equals OPEN then you could set a persistent global variable.  You should be able to read this variable from init() since it's be created with the data set.</p><p> </p><p>The other way to do this, and I would think the more proper way, is to use the data engine api from initlize().  You'd need to create a copy of the data set, then execute it, after it's been executed you can loop through the results to look for your value.  Take a look at <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://wiki.eclipse.org/Java_-_Simple_Design_Engine_API_(BIRT)'>this link</a> for more on this.</p><p> </p><p>Let me know if you need help in building an example and I'll see if I can't work one up for you.</p>