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Newbie - Saving changes to a report [message #640075]

Thu, 18 November 2010 18:14

Eclipse User

Hi,
I have created several reports and have noticed when making minor changes such as changing the Margin for the Master Page from 0.25 in to 0.5cm, I am unable to save the change. The save options are all greyed out.
To make save appear I have been making a dummy change to the layout page and even then it still only gives me Save As.

I am starting to work with libraries and am making changes to library settings. Is this an issue?
What am I doing wrong and how can I force save.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Chris

Re: Newbie - Saving changes to a report [message #640209 is a reply to message #640075]

Fri, 19 November 2010 10:19

Eclipse User

Chris,

Are the reports read only on the file system?

Jason

On 11/18/2010 6:14 PM, Chris wrote:
> Hi,
> I have created several reports and have noticed when making minor
> changes such as changing the Margin for the Master Page from 0.25 in to
> 0.5cm, I am unable to save the change. The save options are all greyed
> out. To make save appear I have been making a dummy change to the layout
> page and even then it still only gives me Save As.
>
> I am starting to work with libraries and am making changes to library
> settings. Is this an issue?
> What am I doing wrong and how can I force save.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Chris

Re: Newbie - Saving changes to a report [message #640699 is a reply to message #640209]

Mon, 22 November 2010 16:10

Eclipse User

Thanks Jason,
I don't believe so. They are new reports created by me so should not have read only set.
I have been following the reports created in BIRT 2.6 and decided to create my own library to use.
I have created a report with the master page I wanted and then exported it to the library. Then saved the library and the file. I then created a new report and added it to the report along with several other items I wanted in the report from the library.
When making changes to any of these library items in the report in the properties area eg margins, or underline etc, when I go to save the report the save options are greyed out.
I am using 2.52. Is this an issue with it. I can save the report by changing clicking on a field in a table and doing a dummy change on it. Then save as is available.
By the way do you know when BIRT saves a report? It seems to automatically save or is this not true?

Thank you for your time.
chris

Re: Newbie - Saving changes to a report [message #640725 is a reply to message #640699]

Mon, 22 November 2010 17:07

Eclipse User

Can you try this with 2.6.1?
You should get an indication when you override a library element as
described here:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/notable2.6.php#j ump_11

The report should auto save when previewing it. Other than that it is a
manual operation.

Jason

On 11/22/2010 4:10 PM, Chris wrote:
> Thanks Jason,
> I don't believe so. They are new reports created by me so should not
> have read only set.
> I have been following the reports created in BIRT 2.6 and decided to
> create my own library to use.
> I have created a report with the master page I wanted and then exported
> it to the library. Then saved the library and the file. I then created a
> new report and added it to the report along with several other items I
> wanted in the report from the library.
> When making changes to any of these library items in the report in the
> properties area eg margins, or underline etc, when I go to save the
> report the save options are greyed out.
> I am using 2.52. Is this an issue with it. I can save the report by
> changing clicking on a field in a table and doing a dummy change on it.
> Then save as is available.
> By the way do you know when BIRT saves a report? It seems to
> automatically save or is this not true?
>
> Thank you for your time.
> chris

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