zoom out a drag and drop KPI

Hi,
Is it possible to zoom out a list report (drag and drop KPI) and then open it via a hyperlink in a new window to show the report in full?

Thanks
Kumar

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bhanley

You want to make a portlet on the Mashboard that serves as a listing of available reports that when selected open in a new window? If so there is a version of that working in the Quick Start Application. Check out the "My reports" tab. That simply embeds a view of the reports available to the logged in user. In the mashconfig file, the URL for the "My Reports" tab takes an argument of "folder". You can restrict this tab to any folder on the volume, thereby focusing the overall array of available reports to a folder and its sub-folders. 
 
You can also use this same URL to build a portlet. The configuration would look something like this: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>

<portlet id="report_lister" title="A Report listing" img="tbl.gif" imgalt="A Reportlet Listing Other Reports">
<content urlType="root" iframe="true" url="getportletfolderitems.do?folder=[B]/path/to/report/content[/B]" />
<size width="33" height="215" scroll="false"/>
</portlet>

</pre>
 
Is that in the ballpark as to what you are looking for?

kukkri

My bad:What I meant to ask was If I designed a portlet based on a Listing style report created in BIRT, I want to open up that entire rptdocument in a new window.
I do not need a listing of all reports for a particular user....though I think your idea was interesting.

Please advise.

bhanley

I apologize, but I am still a bit foggy on the requirement here. Do you simply want a report to take up a whole tab on the Mashboard or do you want a baseline report inside a Mashboard portlet to launch other "things" in an entirely new window?

Sorry I am not getting this too qquickly. There appears to be a missing piece somewhere I just need to find so I can put together a solution for you.

kukkri

Well, I was more looking for any given portlet(that we can drag and drop) to be click-to-open-in-new-window.
In other words, once a KPI is dropped onto the canvas, the user can then click on the portlet to see the report in full in a new window. Where this would be useful is when I create a simple listing report, then create a portlet out of it(specifying the height and width). At this point it is in miniature size.
The user will then click on the portlet and open the entire report in a new window.
Are there any tricks to do this?

PuckPuck

The portlets themselves, are typically just small pieces of an entire report. In some cases the entire report my just be a single chart.

Now there is nothing stopping you from putting a link inside the portlet content, to launch a new window with content from another report (or the same entire report).

You can also put this code within an Action Button which would put the link in the portlet's titlebar

kukkri

PuckPuck,
Thats exactly what I ended up doing earlier...putting a link inside the report on a field so the user can click it to launch in a new window. But I was trying to see if I could Hyperlink a BIRT table control(container for my data fields)....like how we do a chart. But I guess the answer is no...it cannot be done.

If it could be done....then the could size the portlet in such a way...that the entire portlet would seem like its clickable.

Anyhow....onwards!

bhanley

Sorry I did not have a clearer picture of this early on. No, a table cannot be turned into a Hyperlink in it's entirety. You can create Hyperlinks on individual data elements in the table if you need to.

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