Blank Parameter Popup

I am having an issue. Anytime I hit the birt report refresh (not browser refresh), I get a blank paramter popup that just has the red asterick that says Parameters marked with * are required. This happens for any report after run.
 
Examples:
 
1) Initial page that has the menus. Hit the report refresh and empty parameter popup is shown.
2) Run a report (Has paramters that have data to be entered or not). Hit the report refresh and empty parameter popup is shown.
 
Any Ideas?

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kclark

What version are you on? Do you're hidden required parameters have default values? You mention you're not doing a browser refresh, I'm assuming your seeing this in the default viewer from the designer? I recommend you set your output to your default browser instead of the internal viewer as your results will be more like what you'll get in deployment.

mmacmillan74

Here it is:
 
Whenever a report has only parameters that are hidden....then there is a popup-up that says " Parameters marked with * are required" instead of "There are no parameters for this report". I would expect the latter since all are hidden. We are setting the parameter in the initialize method but because they are hidden then why are we seeing this behavior.
 
There are no default values. We are running BIRT 2.5.1.
 
Thanks!!

JFreeman

This is happening because the report has parameters but they are not visible. When selecting the button to rerun the report, this window displays to allow for the parameters to be reset through the GUI interface for the new run of the report.
 
The "There are no parameters for this report" dialogue will only be displayed in this window if there are truly no parameters within the report. Otherwise, the "Parameters marked with * are required" will be displayed as it was detected parameters for the report, even if they are hidden.

mmacmillan74

As this is how BIRT normally behaves currently in 2.5.1, is it fixed in later version? An option to suppress the popup if all are are hidden? I know that BIRT builds the fragment and uses client to send the parameters to server...so might not be an option..but thought I'd ask. Has this been an issue for anyone else using BIRT?