BIRT Exchange Forum: BIRT Exchange Forum -> Last week in the Forums: Editable Connection Profile, Creating a Dynamic Marker on a DateTime X-Axis, 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. I'm doing my best to catch up the unanswered posts and the posts I'm working on. I was out a couple days and had the newsletter to get out, so if you know the answer to a post that you see isn't answered, feel free to post. As always, thanks to those users who help answer questions! It is a great help to the community!

The unanswered topic, from last week, is about connection profiles. The poster wants to be able to create an editable connection profile for the purpose of editing the parameters for the dataSource for use in many reports. If anyone has experience editing connection profiles in this way, please post your suggestions in the thread.

The next topic I'll cover is about dynamic x-axis chart markers. The poster wanted to be able to create a dynamic marker on their dateTime type x-axis. A couple of examples are in the thread. One shows how to do this with a true dateTime axis and one shows how to do this with a dateTime category axis.

The last topic, for this week, is about getting a border only on the bottom of a group, in a crosstab. The poster wanted to be able to have a border on the bottom of each row grouping, in their crosstab. This would be easy, if they wanted a border on all rows, but with the way a crosstab is formed, it gets harder to put borders on only certain cells. An example is included in the thread that shows how this can be done in script.

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.