Adding custom user actions to Birt HTML report

Hello Everyone,

I am a newbie to BIRT. I am working on a report which has 4 columns of data retrieved from an Oracle DB. I use the rptdesign and render the output as html on a JSF page.

What I want to do is to add a fifth column in the report which would have a link/action button, for each row and would allow the user to take action for each of the report element.

For instance, the link/action button, can be "View Details", "Share" and "Delete" for each of the returned row, on clicking which the action is taken, with reference to the row.

I search through many forums for "adding custom user actions to a BIRT report" but couldn't find any solutions.

Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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memaverick

mwilliams

Hi memaverick,

You can add a hyperlink to an element within a row that drills down to a detail report. When you say "share" and "delete" what do you mean? Is share emailing someone? Is delete deleting from the report or from the database completely?

mwilliams

Also, I merged your duplicate posts into one.

memaverick

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'mwilliams'" data-cid="65934" data-time="1277508073" data-date="25 June 2010 - 04:21 PM">
Hi memaverick, 
 
You can add a hyperlink to an element within a row that drills down to a detail report. When you say "share" and "delete" what do you mean? Is share emailing someone? Is delete deleting from the report or from the database completely? </blockquote>
 
Hi MWilliams, 
 
Sorry for not including the details in my earlier post. 
 
Share means initiating an email to other user and delete does mean deleting it from DB. 
 
Specifically, what I am looking for is how to add links to report rows so that I can assign custom actions to them. 
 
Thanks for your response.