[news.eclipse.birt.usability] Re: Table of Contents (TOC) expression

[Mark Coggins <mcoggins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

There's a table of contents thread going right now on the e.birt newsgroup.

This newsgroup was intended for usability issues, but isn't really used 
by anyone at present.

--MC

jim wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to populate the TOC frame that is presented when 
> you open the viewer with the "frameset" verb?
>
> I can use the table designeer to drop <expression 
> name="toc">...</expression> elements into the rptdesign XML. Depending 
> what expression I replace the ellipses with, I can get small, simple, 
> inactive text to appear in the viewer's TOC frame.
>
> How would one populate the TOC frame with the distinct values of a 
> column by which a table is ordered? And then be able to click on those 
> values to direct focus to the first row of the clicked value?
>
> More generally, is there any documentation that provides better how-to 
> knowledge than what little there is in the BIRT Developer's Guide in the 
> Eclipse help system?