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set Title for PDF metadata

Senro

Hi together,
 
first sorry for my poor english.
 
Ok, i have a report with a report item (label). The text in this label is hardcoding and also the title of this report. I want to read this text and set it to the advanced properties as title by java. The problem is, that i only can set the title in the initialize method, but at this time the report item is not created. The result is a nullpointer. There must be a way to resolve this problem. Please help me, i have a bunch of reports with this problem.
My java class extends ReportEventAdapter and the method work with "reportContext.getDesignHandle().setProperty("title", title);" So what can be done to get the value of the label at the initialize? Or can i set the title later in the generation phase or presentation phase?
 
Thanks a lot

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mwilliams

If the text in the label is static, as you said, you could do something like this, where "MyLabel" is the name set for your label in the property editor:
 
var myTitle = reportContext.getDesignHandle().findElement("MyLabel").getStringProperty("text");
 
This works in the initialize method.

Senro

Hi Michael,
 
thanks for your answer!
With a little modification this works for my issue.
 
Below i post my solution to work with a ReportEventHandler:
<pre class="_prettyXprint">
@Override
 public void initialize(IReportContext reportContext) throws ScriptException {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 super.initialize(reportContext);

 String myTitle = reportContext.getDesignHandle().findElement("title").getStringProperty("text");
 try {
 reportContext.getDesignHandle().setProperty("title", myTitle);
 } catch (SemanticException e) {
 // TODO Auto-generated catch block
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }</pre>
many thanks for your help and have a nice day!
Senro

mwilliams

Wonderful. Glad I could help. Let us know whenever you have questions.