In Jsapi, how can i tell if the report is being run as PDF (or otherwise)?

jshaw

<p>Hi, how can i test if a report is being run as a pdf output, or doc/xls etc, is there a parameter i can test to see? I want to adjust the width of a chart depending on it.</p>

Clement Wong

<p>Are you referring to the DEAPI (Design Engine) API when a report is run?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In the Design, you can add the following code to detect the format in the <em>initialize </em>event (specifically for the Run phase because initialize is called twice, once for Run and another for Render) and save to a global variable.</p>
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if(reportContext.getAppContext().get("JREMTask").getTaskType() == Packages.org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.IEngineTask.TASK_RUN){
     //reportContext.getAppContext().get("JREMTask").setIsProgressive(false);
    reportContext.setGlobalVariable("theFormat", reportContext.getOutputFormat());
}
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<p>So then you can use the global variable in the <em>beforeFactory </em>event to do your logic:</p>
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// This logging only works in commercial BIRT Designer Professional
//logger = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("birt.report.logger");
//logger.warning ("beforeFactory

---

");
//logger.warning ( reportContext.getGlobalVariable("theFormat") );

if ( reportContext.getGlobalVariable("theFormat") == "html")
   // do this
else
  // do that</pre>
<p>The reason for calling not calling <span style="font-family:'courier new', courier, monospace;">reportContext.getOutputFormat()</span> in <em>beforeFactory </em>is because of <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=331713'>this Bugzilla entry</a>.</p>