Phantom BIRT Error in Windows 7

Hi - I just upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista. My reports still work in BIRT, but when I run them now, I get the message "The report contains errors, would you like to continue for previewing?" before they run. 
 
The report data looks good, but I am not sure how to figure out what BIRT thinks the "error" is now. Any thoughts on how to check this? 
 
Thanks! 
AS

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JasonW

If you switch to the xml view does it have any error circles/dots?

Jason

AmandaStar

Hi Jason - do you mean the XML Source tab? I don't see anything but XML there... ?

JasonW

Yes that is what I meant. Are you getting the error in the designer? What happens if you build a new report from scratch?

Jason

AmandaStar

Yes, the error is happening in the designer when I click Preview, before the results display (correctly).

Newly-created reports seem to be fine.

I'm also noticing that some of our existing reports are completely lacking their Master Page information when I open them in BIRT now. In the Outline panel, the Master Page shows with a red 'X' as well as the overall report name. Not the case with that original report, though - just the report name is showing an 'X' and none of the sub-elements have one.

JasonW

Are your reports using themes or libraries?

Jason

AmandaStar

Hmm. All of the existing reports do have two libraries, copied forward from previous template reports, but neither is showing as broken now, and refreshing both of them didn't change anything. I did have to manually add a custom embedded image to the Master Page that did show up again.

JasonW

Can you post the two libs and one of the problem reports?

Jason

AmandaStar

Hey, Jason - I can't post the libraries or report here because of security, but I've done some more checking on the reason for the error. 
 
It looks like the borders are not showing up any more in my new installation of BIRT. The cells that have borders in the uploaded report show the red 'x' in my local version, and the mouse-over message is "The style "section-border" used by [cell location] is not found." 
 
So - in our production environment, the report has the borders, but when I download the definition and work with it in a fresh BIRT install on Windows7, they disappear. Any thoughts? 
 
Thanks!

JasonW

Do you have the styles in the library? Did you set a resource folder in your designer?

Jason

AmandaStar

Good questions... How would I figure out if these are the case? I wasn't aware that adding borders to cells would have anything to do with Styles, unless I somehow saved them. 
 
Thanks! 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'JasonW'" data-cid="101567" data-time="1338575852" data-date="01 June 2012 - 11:37 AM">
Do you have the styles in the library? Did you set a resource folder in your designer? 
 
Jason </blockquote>

JasonW

You can look at the preferences to determine if you set a resource folder.
Window->preferences->Report Design->Resource

The message indicates that you the cell can not locate a style defined for it. If the style was in the report it would locate it. So the style is most likely coming from the resource folder. Look at your xml for an entry something like:

<list-property name="cssStyleSheets">
<structure>
<property name="fileName">mystyles.css</property>
</structure>
</list-property>

Jason