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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. We're in the 4th quarter now and the BIRT Exchange community continues to be very strong and active! Many great questions and answers are being posted every day. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The first topic I'll bring up from last week is sending a report to a specific printer. The question being asked is if a different printer can be set up for a specific report that creates labels and print all other reports normally on the default printer. There is not yet a solution for this question, so if you have a good answer, please post it! :)

The second topic for this week is about adding hierarchy numbers to your titles. The poster wanted to be able to add numbers for the groupings and paragraphs in the report. For example, they have a main group title and then sub titles underneath this main title. They'd like to add numbers like:

1 Main Group 1
1 1 MG1 Sub Group 1
1 2 MG1 Sub Group 2
2 Main Group 2
2 1 MG2 Sub Group 1
etc...

The suggested answer is to use script. Some small example scripts showing this can be found in the thread.

The last topic for this week is setting a dynamic column width within a grid. The poster had a grid that they wanted to be able to size the columns of, dynamically. There is an example linked in the forum thread that shows how you can dynamically size the columns of the grid in script.

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.