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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. Lots of good questions were asked in this first week of the second half of the year. Doesn't look like we'll be slowing down much, at all, this year. Keep the good questions and answers coming. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post, for this week, is about a problem with fragmented wsdl schemas, in BIRT. The poster is having an issue using a fragmented schema in their web service dataSet. They show their original wsdl and original schema in the thread, along with a changed schema that they found they could do to make it work, but they don't want to have to do. If anyone has run into an issue with this before or has an idea of something they could do to get around it without changing the schema, please post in the thread.

The next topic I'll cover is about modifying the contents of a grid dynamically. The poster wanted to be able to create an array from the rows in a dataSet and, then, step through their grid and change the values of the labels in each grid cell. The problem they were having was that they didn't have access to their data until the onCreate, but weren't able to step through their grid and modify the contents, at this point. They also didn't want to have to place script on each cell/label. A solution is provided that uses script in the before Factory to step through the grid and modify each label's onCreate script, so that the code only has to be done in one place. The example can be downloaded from the thread.

The last topic, for this week, is about adding grouping to a table dynamically and forcing a space between the groups. The poster wanted to be able to group their data and have a space between the groups, using the DEAPI, not the designer. Some beforeFactory code is shown in the thread that grabs the table, creates a grouping, adds it to the table, and adds group header and footer rows. The footer row's height is set to force a spacing between the groups. As described in the thread, the script to add the header row and group header data element is commented out, as the poster did not want this.

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.