BIRT Exchange Forum: BIRT Exchange Forum -> Michael's BIRT Blog

This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and highlights some of the questions asked that seem to frequent the forums or other interesting topics. The forum traffic has been pretty high, so far, this month. Let's keep it up. Many great questions and answers were posted. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post from last week is about creating charts in java. The poster wants to be able to create pie and bar charts in code, instead of in the designer. If anyone has any examples they've done or links on where they can find examples, please post in the thread.

The next topic for this week is about determining if a parameter is multi-select or not. The poster wanted to be able to step through their parameters in their report and determine if the parameter was a multi-select or not, so they'd know whether they needed to step through the parameter object or not. A solution is provided that grabs all the parameters, determines if they're multi-select or not, then steps through the selected value or values, and then displays them in the report.

The last topic for this week is about hiding the legend from a secondary axis. The poster had two series in their chart that had the same groupings, so they wanted to be able to remove the second series groups from the legend. An example report is available in the thread that shows one way that this can be achieved using chart scripting.

Again, this is just a small sample of what went through the forums this past week. For more questions and answers that have been posted, check out the forums. As always, if you have a question, feel free to ask it, and if you see a question you know the answer to or have a similar experience to, feel free to post an answer or comment.