embed a report into a jsp, pass a parameter into it by default

Hello,

A quick question that should be simple. I'm trying to embed a report into a jsp, the application using the birt.tld tag library. I got started using the following method:

<birt:viewer id="birtViewer"
reportDesign="test.rptdesign"
baseURL="http://my-pc:8443/OptForceReports"
height="450"
width="700"
showToolbar="false"
showParameterPage="false"
format="html"></birt:viewer>

I don't want the user to see or enter any parameters, rather I'd like the jsp to pass in a parameter into this report automatically. How can I do this, as I'm not seeing any examples of this so far. Let's say the parameter name is Param1 and the value is: "123". Would I simply add a:

Param1="123"

to the above or use a different method?

Thanks in advance,
A.C.

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chavez_ant

I believe the correct syntax, would be the following, and will be trying it out.

<birt:viewer id="birtViewer"
reportDesign="test.rptdesign"
baseURL="http://my-pc:8443/OptForceReports"
height="450"
width="700"
showToolbar="false"
showParameterPage="false"
format="html">
<birt:paramDef name="Param1" id="101" value="123"></birt:paramDef>
</birt:viewer>

Let me know any issues with this, will send a followup if it works ok.

Also, I've seen instructions that I need to copy
the birt.tld file to your WEB-INF/tlds directory

and copy coreapi.jar, modelapi,jar, viewerservlets.jar, engineapi.jar, and com.ibm.icu_version.jar from the Viewer libs directory to the new context/web-inf/lib

However, in my version of birt (commercial version of act 11 sp3), I do not see the "viewerservlets.jar" or any similarly named file, let me know any thoughts on where to get it. Looks like actuate 11 sp3's birt version is 2.6.3, so I'll plan to get the open source version of this file to test with.

chavez_ant

Above syntax with the paramDef tag, does not work. Using this syntax passes in the default parameter value instead of the value specified in the JSP.

Also, about my other question, it looks like using the viewservlets.jar file from the open source BIRT runtime library for 2.6.1 is working.

Let me know any thoughts on the syntax for passing in a parameter.