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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. It's June! Summer is upon us. I fully expect the forums to begin to slow down, sometime this month, as summer is here and there are vacations to be taken. As always, thanks to those users who help answer forum questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post for this week is about integrating BIRT reports in Vaadin portlet. The poster is wanting to be able to integrate birt reports into their Vaadin portlet. They are new to Vaadin and they can't figure it out. If anyone has done this or has suggestions, please post in the thread!

The next topic, from last week, that I'll cover, is about having a string field as a crosstab measure. The default aggregation performed on a crosstab element is SUM. If you've tried using a string and didn't know where to change this or have ever tried to sum with a string field, before, you know you end up with an error. When you want to use a string, the other thing you need to do is to change the aggregation to FIRST. To do this, double click on the measure in the crosstab wizard and change SUM to FIRST in the drop down. There is an example in the thread that shows this.

The last question, for this week, is about changing the colors of the series in a chart and setting the legend color to match. This is a very common question. I may have covered this in a past edition of LWITF, but it's worth covering again. In the forum thread, you'll see script that can be added to the chart script to change both the series color and the legend block color, to match, based on the series.

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.