BIRT Exchange Forum: BIRT Exchange Forum -> Last week in the Forums: Retrieving a Single Object with a Scripted DataSet, Dynamically Setting the Border Color on a Chart, and more...

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.