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Standard Deviation calculation in BIRT STDDEV (Sample vs. Population)
All, When double checking my results of STDDEV aggregation in BIRT (2.5.2), I realized the output was slightly different than the numbers I had calculated by hand in Excel. BIRT is calculating the standard deviation and treating the underlying numbers as a sample as opposed to an entire…
Word Wrapping / Paragraph spacing
The following is a simple label that wraps to 2 lines (Corporate S Medium font) - size 9
Chart Engine PDF Fonts on Linux BIRT 2.5.2
Hi - I need some help identifying where the chart engine in version 2.5.2 sources the fonts from. When our PDFs are created, all the fonts in the rest of the report (Arial) are fine, but the chart image that is created for the PDF contains the default fonts of Lucinda for the chart text and legend etc... I have the runtime…
Chart Legend Font on Linux
Hello all... We are rendering our birt reports on sun and Linux machines (we have the run-time wrapped in Java), and for Charts that are rendered on the Linux machines, it is not picking up the Arial font that we have set. It seems to be grabbing some default from somewhere, and I need to verify where that is. I've been…
PDF Font subset vs. full font (2.5.2)
All, When PDFs are rendered, the fonts are embedded into the document as a "subset" (See attached). Does anyone know if there is a way for the engine to embed the full font ? (second attached pic, created using Adobe). Another question, is there any way to NOT embed the fonts at all into the PDF. I've tried the setting…
Dynamic Text field / Paging
All, I have a report that displays a "Dynamic Text" field that contains HTML formatted text from an XML file, and when the text is too long to fit on the first page of the report, it forces the entire text to the next page, leaving lots-o white space on page 1 of the report. In doing some digging, it seems there are some…
Moving x-axis labels
Hi all - The "x-axisLabels" picture is rendered by Birt with a x-axis Origin set to "value" and "0". You will notice that the labels for the x-axis are plastered right to the line. My goal is the second picture attachment "x-axisLabelsTarget", and keep the labels on the bottom of the chart, while leaving the x-axis line at…
Delete Y-Axis series at runtime from chart
All, I have a bar chart set up with 4 series on the Y-axis. In some instances, I will only have data to fill up 3 of the series, and in that case, I would like to delete the 4th series from the chart. I have the following code that will set any series I need to visible(false), but that still leaves the empty space where…
Refresh Dataset
All, Iv'e used a suggestion from this forum for a "nested" table that is parameter bound to a value in an outer table, so that I can retrieve a dataset multiple times. In theory this is working, but it practice, it seems that once the dataset is retrieved the first time, it does not get retrieved the 2nd, 3rd, etc times...…
Dataset execution through Event
All I have a dataset in my report that retrieves performance specific data related to a fund / benchmark. From that I am doing a simple chart that compares the returns of the fund to the benchmark.. Quite simple. The problem I am trying to solve exists where I have > 1 benchmark for the fund. I need to change some…
Eclipse 3.5.1/Birt 2.5.1 Memory Leak?
All, I am now developing reports with the Eclipse 3.5.1/Birt 2.5.1 (Galileo) version under windows XP. I have some reports with only XML data sources, and some with scripted data sources (that still use XML, but we incorporate sax parsing for speed) It seems to me that there is some memory leak with the workbench. Some…
Report Variable Initialization
All - I Have the following script in my "Initialize" event of the report, and I have a variable called "tolerance" set to 1.0000001. When I try to test or set the variable in the initialize event - the script fails. I have the following in the initialize: importPackage( Packages.java.io ); fos = new…
BIRT_VIEWER_LOG_LEVEL - bug ?
All, I am setting BIRT_VIEWER_LOG_LEVEL to ALL, or FINEST but I am only getting 0 byte files when the report I am previewing works, and when there is an error - I only get that error... I am migrating from 2.1 to 2.5 and I need to see the same level of detail in the log files as I saw in 2.1... Anyone know why this setting…
TypeError on ArrayList (not a function, it is object)
All, I have the following class to create a "BirtFieldList" package com.bfm.app.publish.birt; import java.util.ArrayList; /*an arraylist that contains the fields of an array Don't Delete (Needed by all data source classes*/ public class BirtFieldList extends ArrayList{ } In my Open of my scripted Data set, I do the…
Log files not Generated
All, I just downloaded and installed "eclipse-reporting-galileo-SR1-win32.zip" to C:eclipse on my machine. I'm using reports created in Birt 2.1.2 and I am in the process of fixing/debugging so that they will work in the new version. For some reason, the log files for the report viewer are not being generated when I run…
Freezing HTML Headers
Hello all, we are currently using BIRT to do reporting for a accounting type system, and have a request from our users that I am having trouble finding a solution to. They want the html versions of the of the report output to have the headers "frozen" at the top, so as they page through data, they know what…
Looping through a dataset
Hi all, I have a need to search my dataset before displaying the rows on a report. If I find a row that I do not want to show, I can set a column to "N" or something like that. I am using a scripted data set, and my basic idea was to loop through all of the rows retrieved in the 'beforeClose' event, secrching for the ones…
Comments in the Report Designer (XMl source tab)
Hello all, If you look at the top of the XML generated by the report writer GUI, there are comment lines there that look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  We are using a CVS repository, and always have to paste in our comment blank at the top of the XML directly before we…
Problem with XML data source
Hello all! I am building an XML data source with the following structure, with the goal of returning the VALUE_DATE, NAV_ID from the INDEX section, and the NAV_ID and VALUE_DATE from the STUB section (renamed to STUB_NAV_ID and STUB_VALUE_DATE) The XPATH expression is: /INDEX/STUB_set/STUB <?xml version="1.0"?> <INDEX>…