Select one of multiple emitters of the same type?

Hi.

I'm using the Web Viewer to render reports. I have two Excel emitters installed, the standard one and the Tribix emitter.

Is there any way to select at runtime which emitter to use? Either by a script in the report or by a URL parameter or something like that? I want one specific report to use the standard emitter and the others to use the Tribix emitter.

I've tried modifying emitterID in RenderOption in a script like this:
reportContext.getRenderOption().setOption("emitterID", "org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.prototype.excel");

but it has no effect.

-- EB

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johnw

You pretty much nailed it. You specify an output format in the RenderOption. That output format has to match a emitter ID that is specified in the plug-in ID of the emitter. So, for example, the HTML emitter uses a emitter ID of "HTML", the PDF uses a type of "PDF", ect. Usually, when I write emitters, I use custom ones, such as "MyHTMLEmitter" instead of a generic extension so there is no mix up. Make sure you are using the generic RenderOption class, not the sub-class of HTMLRenderOption or anything like that. And make sure that the Tribix emitter doesn't use the same "XLS" ID as the standard one.