BIRT Exchange Forum: BIRT Exchange Forum -> Last week in the Forums: "Processing" Bar for PDF Reports, Stacked Bar Chart "Total" Label, 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. Like I figured, last week, the forum traffic has picked back up, in a big way, this week. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered post, from last week, that I'll discuss is about adding a processing bar when generating a PDF report. The poster is wanting to know if there's a way in which they can add a "processing, please wait" bar to let the user know the PDF is still processing. If anyone has experience with this issue or has a suggestion to something that could work, please post in the forum thread!

The next post I'll cover, this week, is about putting the total on top of a stacked bar chart. The poster was wanting to find a way to show the total bar value in a label on the top of a stacked bar, rather than just the individual stacked bar values. An example report design is posted in the thread that shows how script can be used to achieve this, by hiding the label for the bottom series and changing the value of the top series's label to be the sum of the bar.

The last topic we'll cover, from last week, is about truncating a long URL, but keeping the hyperlink. The poster was wanting to know how they could truncate a long URL in their table, for clean design purposes, but still keep the value of the entire URL for the hyperlink. One way to do this is given in the forum thread. It is to use the following script:

var myaction = this.createAction();
myaction.setHyperlink(this.getValue(),"_blank");
this.action = myaction;
this.setDisplayValue(this.getValue().substr(0,20));

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.