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[birt-dev] Project meta data is out of date for birt

emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:18 GMT

Wenfeng,
Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation
Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/).  The following problems were found
with this project's meta-data:

* The date for release "2.0" uses the no-longer-supported mm/yyyy date
format (1/2006). Please use MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD. If you are unsure of
the date, we recommend you use the last date of the month.
* The date for release "2.3.0" is in the past, but the release is not
marked as completed. If it is completed, it should be marked as completed;
if it has been postponed, it should be given a new target date.
* There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects
must have a "next release" planned and scheduled.

Re: [birt-dev] Separate Reports in BIRT

vpetry@xxxxxxx (Petry Vincent) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:06:30 GMT

Hello,

You can add two report parameters "startrecord" and "endrecord" and make your report design filter by record number / row number.
Then you can generate different report documents by specifying parameter values like startrecord=1, endrecord=1000 for the first one, startrecord=1001, endrecord=2000 for the second one, etc, and save the report document using different names.

Thanks,

-  

Vincent Petry

Actuate Software Shanghai Center
Tel: (86)21-58826388
Fax: (86)21-58826002
Email: vpetry@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 17:23 -0700, remya wrote:

My application necessitates that each 1000 records be grouped together to one
report. Like, when the user clicks on a button to generate report and
suppose there are totally 10,000 records to be displayed in the report, it
must produce 10 separate reports, with 1-1000 records in 1st report,
1001-2000 in the second report and so on.

Is such a provision available in BIRT?

Re: [birt-dev] Error in Excel Preview using BIRT all-in-one

cavillarba@xxxxxxx (cavillarba) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:46:01 GMT

Kyle:

Thanks for your valuable input. I already downloaded the extended emitters
and copy to my computers using the instructions below w/c I get from the
Internet search. However, I had some minor problems, the drop-down options
for XLS will no longer display in BIRT. 

CESAR

To install:
===========
Dump it in the directory
ROOT\birt-rcp-report-designer\plugins\
org.uguess.birt.report.engine.emitter.xls_2.3.0.200807241457 with all its
contents and subfolders. In the main root directory
you will find the xls-emitter.jar. Do not copy this to the root directory
of the plugins directory - it will not work.

You'll also need to get the recommended POI jar
and dump it in the lib directory

i.e. plugins\
org.uguess.birt.report.engine.emitter.xls_2.3.0.200807241457\lib\
poi-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar

You'll also need to rename or delete the original
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.prototype.excel_2.3.1.v20080917.jar

If you're using the All-In-One Version of BIRT an Eclipse Project
==================================
You do the exact same thing except you do these changes
in ECLIPSE_INSTALL\plugins folder


Kyle.Bober wrote:
> 
> This is  due to the format of the Excel file generated by BIRT. BIRT
> generates it's Excel files in the SpreadSheetML format which was a
> horrible
> attempt at storing the Excel spreadsheets in XML. Now Office 2007 follows
> the Open XML format. If you want BIRT to generate true Excel Binary files
> you should use the open source Tribix project.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tribix/
> 
> -Kyle
> 
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, cavillarba 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Everyone, I successfully downloaded and install the BIRT all-in-one
>> package from eclipse web-site in my computer and created the sample
>> report.
>> I can preview this report in all forms(html, PDF, Word and Postscript)
>> but
>> except in Excel(I'm using Office 2007). I received this error: "The file
>> you
>> are trying to open, 'Customers[6].xls', is in a different format than
>> specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted
>> and
>> is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the
>> file now?" Is there any problem with my eclipse installation? I only
>> download/extract the file and save it to my computer. Pls. help. Thanks,
>> CESAR
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Re: [birt-dev] Error in Excel Preview using BIRT all-in-one

kyle.bober@xxxxxxx (Kyle Bober) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:26:13 GMT

This is due to the format of the Excel file generated by BIRT. BIRT generates it's Excel files in the SpreadSheetML format which was a horrible attempt at storing the Excel spreadsheets in XML. Now Office 2007 follows the Open XML format. If you want BIRT to generate true Excel Binary files you should use the open source Tribix project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tribix/

-Kyle

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, cavillarba <cavillarba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Everyone, I successfully downloaded and install the BIRT all-in-one package from eclipse web-site in my computer and created the sample report. I can preview this report in all forms(html, PDF, Word and Postscript) but except in Excel(I'm using Office 2007). I received this error: "The file you are trying to open, 'Customers[6].xls', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?" Is there any problem with my eclipse installation? I only download/extract the file and save it to my computer. Pls. help. Thanks, CESAR
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[birt-dev] Error in Excel Preview using BIRT all-in-one

cavillarba@xxxxxxx (cavillarba) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:20:39 GMT

Hi Everyone, I successfully downloaded and install the BIRT all-in-one package from eclipse web-site in my computer and created the sample report. I can preview this report in all forms(html, PDF, Word and Postscript) but except in Excel(I'm using Office 2007). I received this error: "The file you are trying to open, 'Customers[6].xls', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?" Is there any problem with my eclipse installation? I only download/extract the file and save it to my computer. Pls. help. Thanks, CESAR

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RE : [birt-dev] Tabulator in Birt List

vpetry@xxxxxxx (Vincent Petry) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:10:42 GMT

Hello,

Not sure whether I understand well what you want to achieve.
I think the reason why the tabs ("\t" ?) disappear is because they are ignored by the HTML rendering.
You can try to replace the tabs inside the String with a few " ". For example: "    Tabulated value" (without double quotes).

Thanks,

Vincent Petry

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Date: mar. 29/09/2009 23:47
À: birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : [birt-dev] Tabulator in Birt List
 

Hallo,

I want to use a List in birt, which should display a String.
This String should include Tabs to increase the Visualibility.
The Problem. The Tabs disappear.

Any suggestion? Thanks!
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[birt-dev] Tabulator in Birt List

Juergen.Leeb@xxxxxxx (Justive) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:47:58 GMT

Hallo,

I want to use a List in birt, which should display a String.
This String should include Tabs to increase the Visualibility.
The Problem. The Tabs disappear.

Any suggestion? Thanks!
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[birt-dev] Separate Reports in BIRT

remyasanker@xxxxxxx (remya) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:23:26 GMT

My application necessitates that each 1000 records be grouped together to one
report. Like, when the user clicks on a button to generate report and
suppose there are totally 10,000 records to be displayed in the report, it
must produce 10 separate reports, with 1-1000 records in 1st report,
1001-2000 in the second report and so on.

Is such a provision available in BIRT?
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[birt-dev] New Eclipse BIRT Release Build Available for Download

xgu@xxxxxxx (Xiaoying Gu) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:21:22 GMT

BIRT Community,

The BIRT development team are pleased to let you know that BIRT 2.5.1 Release Build (build number: 20090922-0630) is now available for download.

2.5.1 release build < 20090922-0630> can be downloaded from the BIRT download page: http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/build.php?build=R-R1-2_5_1-200909220630

It can also be installed via BIRT 2.5.x Update Site: http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/2.5

And Galileo SR1 EPP Reporting package can be downloaded from:
Windows - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/SR1/eclipse-reporting-galileo-SR1-win32.zip

Linux 32bit - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/SR1/eclipse-reporting-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz

As always, please provide your feedback through the newsgroup or by reporting bugs through Bugzilla.

Regards,

BIRT Team

Re: [birt-dev] Word export creates Word-tables from BIRT-List

orgler@xxxxxxx (Johannes Michler) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:56:04 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your reply, I posted to enhancement requests. While posting these request I remebered another problem we faced while creating our reports: Is there a way to format some text in my report as word headings (heading 1, heading 2, and so on). For our reports, we prefer using these means to produce a consistent layout. Furthermore, this allows us using word "generate table of content" to produce such a table. I couldn't find a way to mark text in the birt report as a heading.

For us, we came around this by writing some #H1#, #H2# and so on into the report for defining the headers and afterwards running a little Visual Basic for Application macro, that makes regular word headings from this markup. But of cause we'd prefer to have this directly in the report. (eg. cause Office mac 2008 doesn't provide VBA support).

Is there a way to format text as heading in BIRT that I couldn't find? Or should I post another enhancement request?

-orgler

2009/9/23 Wenfeng Li <wli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, Orgler

Thanks for the feedback. Can you log two enhancements in Eclipse bugzilla, one for outputting list as continuous text. and another one to output 2007 docx format..

For list output, do you see each detail list section to be exported as separate paragraph, new line, or not separation between them? It will also help us to understand the enhancement if you can attach a sample report design, current WPML export, and a desired export in the bugzilla.

Br,

Wenfeng

From: birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johannes Michler
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:21 AM
To: birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birt-dev] Word export creates Word-tables from BIRT-List

Hi,

we're producing a quite long word-report using BIRT. That report consists of many List ReportItems, where some of these Lists are nested in the "Details" of another List. This is working fine so far, except for one annoying thing: When exporting to word-2003 wpml, each List gets a Table.In our context, this is quite ugly, since this makes it difficult to manually adjust the report. Is there a way to setup BIRT-WPML-Export in such a way that the content of a List is just printed as continuous text instead of a table? For grid I can see it is useful to have them mapped to word-tables, but I don't think this is necessary for Lists, is it?

Just one more note: Is there a special reason for using word-2003-wpml for the export format? I understand you can't write the oldstyle-word for many reasons, but I'd prefer the 2007 docx-format, since for this xml-format there are import-plugins for older word versions. But I don't know if there's an easy way to produce such docx from within Java. In the dotNet-world, there is some SDK for building such documents, but I don't know if there are such things for Java.

Any help would be highly appreciated,

-orgler

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