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. It's nearly the end of 2011 and the forums are still quite active, both with questions and community member answers! Let's finish this year off strong and keep pushing next year to maintain the BIRT Exchange community as the strongest BIRT community out there! 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 unanswered post for the week is about barcodes not displaying in BIRT viewer. The poster is using Maximo and is able to see the barcodes in PDF, but not when they use the BIRT viewer output. If anyone has experience with this issue, please post your suggestions and/or solution in the forum thread!

The next topic from last week is hiding a series in a chart when there is no data. The poster wanted to be able to hide a chart series when it contained no data. A link was provided that shows hiding a series. The next question was how to figure out when a series had no data. The solution given for this was to use the AfterDataSetFilled function in the chart script to figure this out. The poster did this and posted the code that worked for them in the forum thread! Check it out!

The last topic I'll cover this week is how to format a crosstab so that a border separates the weeks. The poster had a report with a crosstab with a dimension for "day of month". They wanted to be able to separate the weeks with a border line. An example is provided in the thread that shows the script necessary to add a border in the necessary locations to achieve the desired look.

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.