Hi Jacques,
thank you for your message. I am sorry to hear you had a system crash. I
should make backups with my PC soon I guess. Still looking forward to be
able to use the BIRT flexible reports
Georg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
From: Jacques Le Roux
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 12:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BIRT Flexible reports questions
Hi Georg,
Sorry I planned to answer you early. My main OS (Win 7) crashed after 6
years of good and reliable service. Fortunately I have a daily and weekly
backups. After 3 days of work I'm back with almost the last state before
crashing.
I still plan to answer you but I need to relax a bit ;)
Jacques
Le 16/09/2020 à 16:03, Georg Potthast a écrit :
Hi Jacques,
I used:
https://ci.apache.org/projects/ofbiz/site/trunk/pluginsdoc/birt/html5/birt.html
Georg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jacques Le Roux
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 2:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BIRT Flexible reports questions
Hi Georg,
Which "online documentation" did you use?
Jacques
Le 16/09/2020 à 10:31, Georg Potthast a écrit :
I try to use the BIRT Flexible reports as described in the online
documentation.
First I downloaded and installed the BIRT report designer for Windows.
Then I made a new directory „reports“ in the designer's directory. After
that I called BIRT from the main menu and selected Flexible Reports. In
the „manage reports“ screen I click on the generate report button and
enter „test123“ as the name of the new report and „testing“ as a
description. I then click send and get a message that the test123 file
has been generated.
Then, in the edit screen, I click on the „download rptdesign file“
button. A window opens and asks me if I want to save the „test.rptdesign“
file. So it did cut off the „123“ at the end. I tested this with
different names, the numbers are always removed from the file name. The
file is also saved on disk without these numbers. Seems like a bug to me.
So I choose a file name without numbers: „testa“ and save the
testa.rptdesign file in my „reports“ directory in the BIRD designer.
However, when I open this file the layout is empty. When I upload the
file again and execute it, I get an empty page.
The testa design file has OFBiz as the data source. As Data Sets there is
“Data Set” with „anotherDate, anotherText, etc.” How can I add the data
set fields for OFBiz so I get the same report as the PDF example on the
BIRT start page (exampleID exampleTypeID exampleName)? I would like to
use the data that is stored in the
„ofbiz\plugins\birt\data\example\ExampleDemoData.xml“ file.
