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[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Data nd Text fields functionality

jasonweathersby@xxxxxxx (Jason Weathersby) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:34:10 GMT

Shomy,

You should be able to use a text element instead of a data element and use the value-of tag within the text element to get dataset data.

Jason

Shomy Jose wrote:

Hi,
For one of my reports I want a mix of funactionality from Text and Data item. Data in HTML I am getting from database and I am binding that column to a data field for which I want HTML style to be applied. Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks and regards,
Shomy Jose

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Scripted Data Set on char

jasonweathersby@xxxxxxx (Jason Weathersby) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:29:32 GMT

Ralph,

Try changing
System.exit(1);
to
return null;

Jason

ralph k wrote:

Hello i have a big problem with my Birt Designer Version 2.2.2
On my report i'm using a scripted data source, within this it calls a java class that generates data from a table using a jdbc connection. This java class returns a vector to my report. Everything works fine within my report, i can us a table to give out the data. But if i'm using within a chart the scripted data set, the birt designer crashs and does shut down my whole eclipse environment.

Sometimes the error happens on selecting the scripted data set and sometimes i can select it, but if i try to run the report, eclipse and the birt designer crash too.
my data set
Script:open
TimeTableGeneratedClass = new Packages.TimeTableGeneratedExtension();
timetable = TimeTableGeneratedClass.readData();
totalrows = timetable.size();
currentrow = 0;
Script:fetch
if( currentrow >= totalrows){
    return(false);
}
var favrow = timetable.get(currentrow);
var test1 = favrow[0];
var test2 = favrow[1];
var test3 = favrow[2];
var test4 = favrow[3];
var test5 = favrow[4];
var test6 = favrow[5];
row["TIME_ID"]=test1;
row["TIMESTAMP_COL"]=test2;
row["DAY_COL"]=test3;
row["WEEK"]=test4;
row["MONTH_COL"]=test5;
row["YEAR_COL"]=test6;
currentrow = currentrow + 1;
return(true);
Script:close
TimeTableGeneratedClass = null;
timetable = null;
my java class seems to be fine
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import java.util.Vector; public class TimeTableGeneratedExtension { private String username = ""; private String password = ""; private ResultSet rs; private Statement stmt; public Vector readData(){ Vector rtnV = new Vector(); Connection con = null; try { Class.forName("com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException exc) { System.err.println("ERROR on loading DB2Driver:" + exc.toString()); System.exit(1); } con = getConnection(); if(con !=null){ try { try{ stmt = con.createStatement(); }catch(SQLException exc){ System.out.println("ERROR on creating statement:" + exc.toString()); return null; } try{ rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT TIME_ID, TIMESTAMP_COL, DAY_COL, WEEK, MONTH_COL, YEAR_COL FROM COMMON_SNAPSHOT.TIME_TBL"); }catch(SQLException exc){ System.out.println("ERROR on executing query:" + exc.toString()); return null; } while (rs.next()){ long timeid = rs.getLong("TIME_ID"); String timestampcol = rs.getString("TIMESTAMP_COL"); String daycol = rs.getString("DAY_COL"); String week = rs.getString("WEEK"); String monthcol = rs.getString("MONTH_COL"); String yearcol = rs.getString("YEAR_COL"); rtnV.add(new String[]{Long.toString(timeid), timestampcol, daycol, week, monthcol, yearcol}); } return (rtnV); } catch (SQLException exc) { return null; } }else{ return null; } } public Connection getConnection(){ Connection con = null; try { String url = "jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/JAZZ"; con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); return con; } catch (SQLException exc) { System.err.println("ERROR on creating connection:" + exc.toString()); return con; } } public static void main(String[] args) { TimeTableGeneratedExtension sc = new TimeTableGeneratedExtension(); Vector rtn = sc.readData(); int t = 0; for( int i=0; i String[] test = (String[])rtn.elementAt(i); System.out.println(t++ +" " +test[0] +" "+ test[1] +" "+ test[2] + " " + test[3] + " " + test[4] + " " + test[5]); } } }

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Chaning thousand separator

jasonweathersby@xxxxxxx (Jason Weathersby) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:25:18 GMT

Ralf,

I should have checked this first. If you set the locale to Switzerland, the separator is changed automatically. What you want is already in the engine. To test set the locale on the url or while in the designer change it here:

window->preferences->Report Design->Preview->Choose your locale

This allows you to change the locale for testing purposes.

Jason

Ralf Grewe wrote:

Hi Jason!

Thanks for this one. Nevertheless the customer who asked for using the
apostrophe as thousand separator works in Switzerland. Consequently he
wants to use this special thousand separator in general. It might be very
useful to set the separator globally in the report. I would also be very
nice if the report engine looks for the system's locale and then choose the
specific thousand separator. I think I will create a future request for
this.

I've studied the JavaDoc for the DecimalFormat class. I cannot see that you
can set the thousand separator via a pattern. Consquently you will have to
use the scripting functionality of BIRT. Am I right?

Ralf

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Error on report (preview tab) "The report contains errors, would you like to continue for previewing"

jasonweathersby@xxxxxxx (Jason Weathersby) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:17:29 GMT

Moi,

I am not certain what is happening. I tried your expression in my code and it worked fine.

Jason

moi wrote:

It works in the both cases however it display the error message in popup.
The expression.txt is well created.
Jason Weathersby a écrit :
Moi,
Does the expression.txt file get created?
When you drop the expression does it work?
Jason
moi wrote:
No there is no error trace at the bottom of the report.
The expression :
<<
// To comment only there for design time
    importPackage( Packages.java.io );
    importPackage( Packages.javax.servlet.http );
    var cookies = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest( ).getCookies();
out = new PrintWriter( new FileWriter( "c:/expression.txt", true ) ); var login; var password; out.println("fetching cookies"); out.println("cookies.length : " + cookies.length); for(var i=0; i < cookies.length; i++) { var monCookie = cookies[i]; out.println("cookie found : " + monCookie.getName()); if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_login")) { login = cookies[i].getValue(); } else if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_password")) { password = cookies[i].getValue(); } }
out.println( "login : " + login);
out.println( "password : " + password);
if (login != null) { out.close(); "http://localhost:6060/orsid_js/xmlQuery.jsp?login="; + login + "&password=" + password; } else { out.close(); "C:\\report1_datas.xml"; } >>

Jason Weathersby a écrit :
Moi,
Do you get an error trace at the bottom of the report? Can you drop the expression in property binding? I assume this is where it is happening. Add a little of it back at a time.
Jason
moi wrote:
Hi,
A report generated with birt 2.3.1 shows the error : "The report contains errors, would you like to continue for previewing".
Do you know where is the error ? I cannot find it.
Regards,
Moi.
----- http://www.eclipse.org/birt/2005/design"; version="3.2.17" id="1"> Eclipse BIRT Designer Version 2.3.1.v20080911 Build <2.3.1.v20080922-1151> in FILELIST 26 // To comment only there for design time importPackage( Packages.java.io ); importPackage( Packages.javax.servlet.http );
    var cookies = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest( ).getCookies();
out = new PrintWriter( new FileWriter( "c:/expression.txt", true ) ); var login; var password; out.println("fetching cookies"); out.println("cookies.length : " + cookies.length); for(var i=0; i < cookies.length; i++) { var monCookie = cookies[i]; out.println("cookie found : " + monCookie); if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_login")) { login = cookies[i].getValue(); } else if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_password")) { password = cookies[i].getValue(); } }
var request = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest();
var login = request.getSession().getAttribute("login");
var password = request.getSession().getAttribute("password");
out.println( "login : " + login);
out.println( "password : " + password);
if (login != null) { out.close(); "http://localhost:6060/orsid_js/xmlQuery.jsp?login="; + login + "&password=" + password; } else { out.close(); "C:\\report1_datas.xml"; } /templates/simple_listing.gif org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.cheatsheet.simplelisting

ltr static string simple login false text-box true Unformatted static string simple false text-box true Unformatted C:\report1_datas.xml 1 Workey_Id string 2 Workey_Doctype string 3 Workey_Subject string queryXML 1 Workey_Id Workey_Id string 12 2 Workey_Doctype Workey_Doctype string 12 3 Workey_Subject Workey_Subject string 12 table0#-TNAME-#table0#:#[/hits/hit]#:#{Workey_Id;STRING;/Workey_Id},{Workey_Doctype;STRING;/Workey_Doctype},{Workey_Subject;STRING;/Workey_Subject}#:#<"","http:%%www.c-log.com%ns%workey-j2ee-api";"xlink","http:%%www.w3.org%1999%xlink";"xsi","http:%%www.w3.org%2001%XMLSchema-instance">

http://www.eclipse.org/datatools/connectivity/oda/design"; xmlns:model="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/report/model/adapter/odaModel";>

1.0 Workey_Id 1 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Id Workey_Doctype 2 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject 3 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Subject ]]> MAX_ROW -1 XML_FILE html new Date()]]> 100% Data Set1 Workey_Id Workey_Id dataSetRow["Workey_Id"] string Workey_Doctype Workey_Doctype dataSetRow["Workey_Doctype"] string Workey_Subject Workey_Subject dataSetRow["Workey_Subject"] string Workey_Id Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject Workey_Id Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject -----

[news.eclipse.birt] Scripted Data Set on char

ralph@xxxxxxx (ralph k) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:32:18 GMT

Hello i have a big problem with my Birt Designer Version 2.2.2

On my report i'm using a scripted data source, within this it calls a java class that generates data from a table using a jdbc connection. This java class returns a vector to my report. Everything works fine within my report, i can us a table to give out the data. But if i'm using within a chart the scripted data set, the birt designer crashs and does shut down my whole eclipse environment.

Sometimes the error happens on selecting the scripted data set and sometimes i can select it, but if i try to run the report, eclipse and the birt designer crash too.

my data set

Script:open

TimeTableGeneratedClass = new Packages.TimeTableGeneratedExtension();
timetable = TimeTableGeneratedClass.readData();
totalrows = timetable.size();
currentrow = 0;

Script:fetch

if( currentrow >= totalrows){
	return(false);
}
var favrow = timetable.get(currentrow);

var test1 = favrow[0];
var test2 = favrow[1];
var test3 = favrow[2];
var test4 = favrow[3];
var test5 = favrow[4];
var test6 = favrow[5];

row["TIME_ID"]=test1;
row["TIMESTAMP_COL"]=test2;
row["DAY_COL"]=test3;
row["WEEK"]=test4;
row["MONTH_COL"]=test5;
row["YEAR_COL"]=test6;
currentrow = currentrow + 1;
return(true);


Script:close

TimeTableGeneratedClass = null;
timetable = null;

my java class seems to be fine

import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import java.util.Vector; public class TimeTableGeneratedExtension { private String username = ""; private String password = ""; private ResultSet rs; private Statement stmt; public Vector readData(){ Vector rtnV = new Vector(); Connection con = null; try { Class.forName("com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException exc) { System.err.println("ERROR on loading DB2Driver:" + exc.toString()); System.exit(1); } con = getConnection(); if(con !=null){ try { try{ stmt = con.createStatement(); }catch(SQLException exc){ System.out.println("ERROR on creating statement:" + exc.toString()); return null; } try{ rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT TIME_ID, TIMESTAMP_COL, DAY_COL, WEEK, MONTH_COL, YEAR_COL FROM COMMON_SNAPSHOT.TIME_TBL"); }catch(SQLException exc){ System.out.println("ERROR on executing query:" + exc.toString()); return null; } while (rs.next()){ long timeid = rs.getLong("TIME_ID"); String timestampcol = rs.getString("TIMESTAMP_COL"); String daycol = rs.getString("DAY_COL"); String week = rs.getString("WEEK"); String monthcol = rs.getString("MONTH_COL"); String yearcol = rs.getString("YEAR_COL"); rtnV.add(new String[]{Long.toString(timeid), timestampcol, daycol, week, monthcol, yearcol}); } return (rtnV); } catch (SQLException exc) { return null; } }else{ return null; } } public Connection getConnection(){ Connection con = null; try { String url = "jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/JAZZ"; con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); return con; } catch (SQLException exc) { System.err.println("ERROR on creating connection:" + exc.toString()); return con; } } public static void main(String[] args) { TimeTableGeneratedExtension sc = new TimeTableGeneratedExtension(); Vector rtn = sc.readData(); int t = 0; for( int i=0; i String[] test = (String[])rtn.elementAt(i); System.out.println(t++ +" " +test[0] +" "+ test[1] +" "+ test[2] + " " + test[3] + " " + test[4] + " " + test[5]); } } }

[news.eclipse.birt] Data nd Text fields functionality

shomy.jose@xxxxxxx (Shomy Jose) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:16:36 GMT

Hi,

For one of my reports I want a mix of funactionality from Text and Data item. Data in HTML I am getting from database and I am binding that column to a data field for which I want HTML style to be applied. Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks and regards,
Shomy Jose

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Report with cover and detail pages

shomy.jose@xxxxxxx (Shomy Jose) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:13 GMT

I got the solution for the question.

Thanks

[news.eclipse.birt] PDF Page Breaks when Detail Row breaks

adnul@xxxxxxx (Adn Nul) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:33:29 GMT

Hi there,

i have a problem on layouting a report for PDF-output: Whenever a detailrow contains long content, it automatically breaks in two lines and so the last line of the page is moved on the next page. After this last line (which is already on a new page) the page break occurs and the rest of the page is empty...

Is there a possibility to avoid this? Or at least to avoid the automatical break of a detail-row when the content is too long?

Tanks in advance,
Adnul

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Error on report (preview tab) "The report contains errors, would you like to continue for previewing"

moi@xxxxxxx (moi) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:20:16 GMT

It works in the both cases however it display the error message in popup.
The expression.txt is well created.

Jason Weathersby a écrit :

Moi,
Does the expression.txt file get created?
When you drop the expression does it work?
Jason
moi wrote:
No there is no error trace at the bottom of the report.
The expression :
<<
// To comment only there for design time
    importPackage( Packages.java.io );
    importPackage( Packages.javax.servlet.http );
    var cookies = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest( ).getCookies();
out = new PrintWriter( new FileWriter( "c:/expression.txt", true ) ); var login; var password; out.println("fetching cookies"); out.println("cookies.length : " + cookies.length); for(var i=0; i < cookies.length; i++) { var monCookie = cookies[i]; out.println("cookie found : " + monCookie.getName()); if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_login")) { login = cookies[i].getValue(); } else if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_password")) { password = cookies[i].getValue(); } }
out.println( "login : " + login);
out.println( "password : " + password);
if (login != null) { out.close(); "http://localhost:6060/orsid_js/xmlQuery.jsp?login="; + login + "&password=" + password; } else { out.close(); "C:\\report1_datas.xml"; } >>

Jason Weathersby a écrit :
Moi,
Do you get an error trace at the bottom of the report? Can you drop the expression in property binding? I assume this is where it is happening. Add a little of it back at a time.
Jason
moi wrote:
Hi,
A report generated with birt 2.3.1 shows the error : "The report contains errors, would you like to continue for previewing".
Do you know where is the error ? I cannot find it.
Regards,
Moi.
----- http://www.eclipse.org/birt/2005/design"; version="3.2.17" id="1"> Eclipse BIRT Designer Version 2.3.1.v20080911 Build <2.3.1.v20080922-1151> in FILELIST 26 // To comment only there for design time importPackage( Packages.java.io ); importPackage( Packages.javax.servlet.http );
    var cookies = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest( ).getCookies();
out = new PrintWriter( new FileWriter( "c:/expression.txt", true ) ); var login; var password; out.println("fetching cookies"); out.println("cookies.length : " + cookies.length); for(var i=0; i < cookies.length; i++) { var monCookie = cookies[i]; out.println("cookie found : " + monCookie); if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_login")) { login = cookies[i].getValue(); } else if (monCookie.getName().equals("report_password")) { password = cookies[i].getValue(); } }
var request = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest();
var login = request.getSession().getAttribute("login");
var password = request.getSession().getAttribute("password");
out.println( "login : " + login);
out.println( "password : " + password);
if (login != null) { out.close(); "http://localhost:6060/orsid_js/xmlQuery.jsp?login="; + login + "&password=" + password; } else { out.close(); "C:\\report1_datas.xml"; } /templates/simple_listing.gif org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.cheatsheet.simplelisting

ltr static string simple login false text-box true Unformatted static string simple false text-box true Unformatted C:\report1_datas.xml 1 Workey_Id string 2 Workey_Doctype string 3 Workey_Subject string queryXML 1 Workey_Id Workey_Id string 12 2 Workey_Doctype Workey_Doctype string 12 3 Workey_Subject Workey_Subject string 12 table0#-TNAME-#table0#:#[/hits/hit]#:#{Workey_Id;STRING;/Workey_Id},{Workey_Doctype;STRING;/Workey_Doctype},{Workey_Subject;STRING;/Workey_Subject}#:#<"","http:%%www.c-log.com%ns%workey-j2ee-api";"xlink","http:%%www.w3.org%1999%xlink";"xsi","http:%%www.w3.org%2001%XMLSchema-instance">

http://www.eclipse.org/datatools/connectivity/oda/design"; xmlns:model="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/report/model/adapter/odaModel";>

1.0 Workey_Id 1 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Id Workey_Doctype 2 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject 3 12 -1 -1 Unknown Workey_Subject ]]> MAX_ROW -1 XML_FILE html new Date()]]> 100% Data Set1 Workey_Id Workey_Id dataSetRow["Workey_Id"] string Workey_Doctype Workey_Doctype dataSetRow["Workey_Doctype"] string Workey_Subject Workey_Subject dataSetRow["Workey_Subject"] string Workey_Id Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject Workey_Id Workey_Doctype Workey_Subject -----

[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Chaning thousand separator

rgrewe@xxxxxxx (Ralf Grewe) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:03:05 GMT

Hi Jason!

Thanks for this one. Nevertheless the customer who asked for using the
apostrophe as thousand separator works in Switzerland. Consequently he
wants to use this special thousand separator in general. It might be very
useful to set the separator globally in the report. I would also be very
nice if the report engine looks for the system's locale and then choose the
specific thousand separator. I think I will create a future request for
this.

I've studied the JavaDoc for the DecimalFormat class. I cannot see that you
can set the thousand separator via a pattern. Consquently you will have to
use the scripting functionality of BIRT. Am I right?


Ralf