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Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #947048]

Tue, 16 October 2012 15:10

Antonio Urbina
Messages: 3
Registered: October 2012

Junior Member

Hello,

We need your help with a problem when displaying a Birt report on an iPad using Safari and iOS6.

We created a report using the Birt engine and inserted it into a liferay portal. When accessing the report from a desktop environment it displays OK but when accessing it from an iPad (on IOS 6) the iframe starts growing up and by the time it really shows up it is a very small portion of the full redered page on the iPad.

This is a dynamic report based on two parameters that must be selected before the execution.

We published the original frame set that comes out of Birt and noticed the same behavior even outside liferay or other CMS portals such as Joomla. We have come to the conclusion that there is a parameter built in the Birt's master document that is somehow misinterpreted on Safari IOS6 creating the endless growing behavior.

Has anyone encountered the same problem? Can you point us on the right direction in order to solve this issue?

Thanks,
Tony

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Re: Display Birt engine repor t on iPad [message #948670 is a reply to message #947048]

Thu, 18 October 2012 04:49

Colin Sutton
Messages: 44
Registered: July 2009

Member

Antonio Urbina <forums-noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We need your help with a problem when displaying a Birt report on an iPad
> using Safari and iOS6.
>
> We created a report using the Birt engine and inserted it into a liferay
> portal. When accessing the report from a desktop environment it displays
> OK but when accessing it from an iPad (on IOS 6) the iframe starts
> growing up and by the time it really shows up it is a very small portion
> of the full redered page on the iPad.
>
> This is a dynamic report based on two parameters that must be selected
> before the execution.
>
> We published the original frame set that comes out of Birt and noticed
> the same behavior even outside liferay or other CMS portals such as
> Joomla. We have come to the conclusion that there is a parameter built in
> the Birt's master document that is somehow misinterpreted on Safari IOS6
> creating the endless growing behavior.
>
> Has anyone encountered the same problem? Can you point us on the right
> direction in order to solve this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
A couple of my reports continually grow and move to the right when
displaying on the iPad with iOS5. Since they work Ok on the PC and Mac with
Safari it must be an iPad Safari issue.

--
Colin Sutton

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Re: Display Birt engine repor t on iPad [message #949366 is a reply to message #948670]

Thu, 18 October 2012 19:45

Jason Weathersby
Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Colin

Are you setting this render option?
HTMLRenderOption options = new HTMLRenderOption();
options.setOutputFileName("output/resample/renderoptions.html");
options.setOutputFormat("HTML");
options.setViewportMeta("width=device-width");

Jason

Jason Weathersby

BIRT Exchange

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Re: Display Birt engine repor t on iPad [message #951173 is a reply to message #949366]

Sat, 20 October 2012 09:27

prachi pradhan
Messages: 1
Registered: October 2012

Junior Member

Hi,

I am also facing same problem, Reports are continuously expanding in iPad, can anyone help.

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Re: Display Birt engine repor t on iPad [message #954198 is a reply to message #951173]

Mon, 22 October 2012 17:32

Michael Williams
Messages: 828
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

And setting the "width=device-width" doesn't help? You might also try "initial-scale=1.0".

Regards,

Michael Williams
BIRT Exchange
Michael's BIRT Blog

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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1059829 is a reply to message #947048]

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01

Robert Grimball
Messages: 4
Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

Jason,

I am using the birt web viewer with the /frameset option and running into the same difficulty as described above.

I noticed your suggestion about using HTMLRenderOption's to setViewportMeta("width=device-width").

This is going to seem like a stupid question, and I am admittedly not nearly as versed in Birt as you or many here, but I am uncertain how to go about getting these options to the web viewer. Presently we simply have a jsp page which forwards the user to the web viewer after setting the __report parameter (may be __reportName, but I'm sure you know what I mean). Where would I create this HTMLRenderOption object and how would I pass it to the viewer? I am guessing I could create one in a scriptlet in the JSP, but I am still at a loss as to how to make the viewer actually use it.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

One more Birt newbie,

Robert

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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1060085 is a reply to message #1059829]

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:23

Michael Williams
Messages: 828
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You could try placing the meta tag directly into the FramesetFragment.jsp located in: WebViewerExample\webcontent\birt\pages\layout

Regards,

Michael Williams
BIRT Exchange
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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1060208 is a reply to message #1060085]

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07

Robert Grimball
Messages: 4
Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

Michael,

Thank you for the suggestion, unfortunately either I am not doing it properly or it isn't working. Sad

I put the following into the framesetfragment.jsp :

<META HTTP-EQUIV="width" CONTENT="device-width">

And I even put a breakpoint in the scriptlet in that jsp to make sure it was being run for reports (it is). But no effect on the report on the iPad, it still has the frame growing constantly off to the right into infinity seemingly.

Any clue what I should do to get this working?

Thanks,

Robert

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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1060219 is a reply to message #1060208]

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58

Robert Grimball
Messages: 4
Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

Also, tried with <META name="width" CONTENT="device-width"> The HTTP-EQUIV was just a second attempt.

Robert

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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1060263 is a reply to message #1060219]

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:34

Michael Williams
Messages: 828
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I've not tried this, but try it this way:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Regards,

Michael Williams
BIRT Exchange
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Re: Display Birt engine report on iPad [message #1060412 is a reply to message #1060263]

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:16

Robert Grimball
Messages: 4
Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

Michael,

I tried it that way as well and still no effect/change. I guess we are hoping that the viewer servlet picks up the meta tag and alters it's behavior for the output? Naturally I've been trying any number of other attempts to just get it to work, changing to run option instead of frameset, but it still walks across the screen with that loading box with the cancel button.

Any other ideas on how to get this to work with the birt viewer on an iPad?

Thanks for all the help,

Robert

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