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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. The new year is almost here! Just a few more weeks to go in 2011. The forums have been very busy all year and I don't expect them to slow down in these last few weeks. 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 question for this week is an issue with SVG in PDF. The question is, when a SVG image is created with Adobe Illustrator, it works in the PDF. However, when the SVG is made with Inkscape, they receive an error message like, "Current report item is not supported in this report format." If anyone has experienced this issue with SVG images and PDF, please post your suggestions or solution in this thread!

The next post I'll cover from last week is, dropping a series from a chart. The question was, how do you drop a series from a chart if it's an empty series. A devShare post is linked as an answer. The devShare post shows how to drop a series based on a parameter. So, the only work left to do to solve the poster's question is to determine if the series is empty or not. This can probably be done outside the chart and passed in just like the parameter value in the example. This information can also probably be found out in the afterDataSetFilled function in the chart script.

The last topic for this week is, changing negative numbers to red. The question is, if you have a field of positive and negative numbers, how do you make the negative ones red. The solution provided is to select the data element for the field, and go to the highlight section of the property editor and add a highlight rule.

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.