BIRT Exchange Forum: BIRT Exchange Forum -> BIRT Exchange Contributor Contest Winner for May 2012 Selected

The winner of the BIRT Exchange Contributor of the Month Contest for May 2012 is Jason Verly (jverly01) for his contribution to BIRT Exchange titled: How to embed a .js file into Maximo BIRT report.

Jason said, "The main reason I worked out this method was that out of the box BIRT doesn't have a string function to change the case of a text string from upper or mixed case to proper case (LAZY BROWN FOX -> Lazy Brown Fox). So when I needed to manipulate the case of a text field in a report, I referenced a javascript file to perform that in the report. The next step was getting the report to still reference the javascript function in the external file once it was loaded into Maximo. Adding the javascript file as a zipped file allowed Maximo to continue to reference the javascript function when the report was run inside Maximo."

Jason is a project engineer for a private company in Minnesota. He has been using BIRT for about 3 years as part of his company's upgrade to IBM Maximo v7. Over the past year Jason has been more focused on expanding the use of BIRT as part of their Maximo platform. He says, "The first push we've made is using the QBR functionality (essentially an ad hoc BIRT report writer) inside of Maximo. This has lead to a broader push to make BIRT the default report tool for Maximo, which includes migrating approximately 120 Crystal BO reports over to BIRT. The goal is to be completely moved over to BIRT by Feb 2013."

Jason chose a $200 Amazon Gift Card for his award.

We also want to thank the other eligible DevShare contributor for participating in May's contest:

• Gantt Chart Auto Axis Scale Example by RaphaelM -- This Example demonstrates that the y-axis of a gantt chart always starts one time unit earlier than the data.

It's not too late... to get your own DevShare article posted in time for next month's contest that closes on June 30th. If you"ve cooked up something that you can share with the BIRT Exchange community, please post it soon! You can create a tutorial, build a BIRT application, template or component, or write up some of the tips and solutions to problems you've run into during the past -- anything that's helped you use BIRT more effectively will probably be useful to others too. And don't forget the BIRT Exchange Marketplace. A code-based DevShare submission could also be a great candidate for the Marketplace.

See the Contributor of the Month Contest Rules and the list of previous winners for more information about the contest.