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BIRT & Hibernate
We need to connet BIRT with Hibernate for the data source. I've done some searching and found a few older posts from 2006 - and a couple from Jason last October referencing an ODA Hibernate data source is about to be released - it was waiting on 2.0.<br /> <br /> Now that BIRT is at 2.2 I was curious if anyone has any…
Reporting on multi-select lists
Hi - We're about to add multi-select list boxes within our application and will need to report on these fields. I'm looking for patterns or best practices that anyone would be willing to share. The lookup items are stored in a separate table that holds the ID and TEXT VALUE. This allows the name of the item to be changed,…
Images in HTML - how to set base path with PDF & Word Emitters?
We are using BIRT reports to display HTML text stored in a database field and rendered on reports with the dynamic text control. The HTML includes img tags. We are able to render images referenced in the HTML data only if we store the full path within the HTML content with the PDF and Word emitter. This is problematic as…
Library datasource not updating in reports
This may be a bug, but hoping I'm just not doing something correctly... I searched Bugzilla and didn't see anything. I have a set of reports using a common datasource which is stored in a library. When I changed the password of the database, I assumed I could just update the datasource in the library and the reports that…
Switching Data Sets
Hopefully a simple question about changing data sets in a report... I'd like to change from one data set to another with an existing report. I can't figure out how to do this with the various bindings. Each time I've tried to switch, the report starts throwing errors and I have to rebuild from scratch. For example if a…
Report Parameter from Library Question
Using BIRT RCP Designer 2.2.1. When I add report parameters from my report.library through the designer, then update my dataset to use the parameters, I've noticed that sometimes BIRT duplicates the underlying datasets used by the parameters in my local report - rather than using the datasets in the library that they…
