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Last Week in the Forums - 8/27/12

The first post, for this week, is about . The poster wanted to be able to highlight the parameter value within a text in their report. An example is provided in the thread with shows one way to achieve this using script.

The next post, for this week, is about creating a graphical representation of airplane seating. The poster wanted to be able to show a graphical representation of an airplane's seating chart, showing which seats are occupied/reserved. An example showing a way in which this can be done can be found in the thread.

Here are a few more :

• Try to hide first row on page - but second row is hidden
  
• Totals in a row crosstab
  
• Calling Multiple reports through Drill through in different target frames
  
• BIRT Deployment in Jboss5.1
  
• Schedule a task to Ftp a BIRT report using iServer

Here is an unanswered post, from last week:

• Query Problem with Temporary Tables and Variables

If you have a suggestion or solution for any of these, please post in the thread!

Thanks for reading this weeks blog! 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.

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. School is out for many, so we might have a lull in forum traffic, over the summer, as people head off on vacation. Only time will tell. The forums are still busy, so far! As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post I'll cover, this week, is about truncated text in Word output when dynamically hiding columns. The poster is having issues when they hide columns in their report and export to Word. The output is fine, if they don't hide the columns, but if they do there is truncated text. If anyone has experienced this issue or has a suggestion for the poster to try, please post in the forum thread!

The next topic I'll cover, this week, is about creating multiple rows out of a dataSet that has a SSV field for a column. The poster had a dataSet that had a SSV field, i.e. 234;227;24;86, that they wanted to turn into multiple rows. In the example field above, it'd be 4 rows, with all other data fields repeating, for each row. A solution is attached in the thread that uses a scripted dataSet to achieve this result. The data from the first dataSet is stored into arrays, then the scripted dataSet separates the original data into separate rows.

The last topic I'll cover, for this week, is about overlaying charts across a grid. The poster wanted to have a couple grid columns with pie charts "laying across them", so they laid over the grid border lines. A solution is provided that uses grids, cell borders, and merged grid cells to make it appear that the chart is overlaying the grid. The example can be found in the forum thread.

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.

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 forums have been pretty steady lately. Not extremely busy, but steady. Many great questions and answers were posted. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post, this week, is about retrieving a single object with a scripted dataSet. The poster wants to know how they can retrieve a single object without storing it in a list and iterating through it. They show the code they're trying to use in their fetch method. If anyone has a suggestion, please post in the thread.

The next question for this week is about dynamically setting the border color on a chart. Based on a certain condition, the poster wanted to be able to change the color of the border surrounding their chart. The scripting solution to this issue can be found in the thread.

The last topic for this week is changing the series label categories displayed in the chart. The issue here is that the poster wants to be able to determine by a parameter whether they show the category value and the data value in their chart label or just the data value. An example is provided in the thread that shows how script in the beforeFactory method of the report is used to change 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.