Actuate BIRT Designer Professional Reports Incompatibility with BIRT 4.5 Designer

Hi, 
I have a lot of reports which were designed using Actuate BIRT Designer Profession and all reports are working fine when I run using View Report button i

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pricher

Hi,
 
There are several features added to Designer Pro that are not available in Open Source BIRT and that will make your migration a tad difficult. (BTW, this is not the expected migration path...)
 
Every report you create in Designer Pro will include ThemesReportItems31.rptlibrary. This library defines themes for HTML5 charts and tables. After you remove the library from your report (and BTW, don't go in the source code to do this, use the Outline UI...) you will still have to set the report's theme to None (Report Properties --> General --> Theme)
 
For a very very basic report displaying a table, you could be good to go. But if you use the embedded DataDirect JDBC drivers to connect to an RDBMS, you will need to change those as they are not available in O/S. As well, HTML5 charts are not supported.
 
The bottom line is that each report will present its own set of challenges. There is no panacea for that type of migration.
 
Regards,
 
P.

sidrees

Hi, 
Please correct if I am wrong but I think since the reports designed with Designer Pro are using Joint Data Sets in which tables are joint to many other tables, I removed the Joint Data sets and report rendered without any error,
 
how can achieve this functionality of Joining multiple tables in one Joint Data Set? I do not see the option in Open source version,
 
Thank you.

pricher

???
 
Joint Data Sets have been available since BIRT 2.1.

pricher

On second thought, the Joint Data Set in Commercial BIRT is different than the one in O/S BIRT and may not be compatible going from Commercial to O/S.
 
P.

sidrees

Hi, 
May be I did not explained very well,
I am referring to a limitation about Joint Data Set in O/S version
 
Joint Data Set in Actuate Designer Pro, I can add as many Data Sets

pricher

Hi,
 
That's exactly the kind of difference between O/S and Commercial. The Joint Data Set in O/S BIRT can only take 2 tables at a time. The Joint Data Set in Commercial BIRT can have more than 2 tables.
 
P.