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Setting parameters via API [message #340109] Thu, 24 January 2008 16:53 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: pmills.systemcore.ca

I'm missing something that I suspect must be obvious. Using the report
engine API, I have no problem running and rendering a report. I also see
calls to find out all kinds of information about report parameters through
the IGetParameterDefinitionTask. What I don't see is the mechanism for
setting a parameter.

Let's say I schedule a report to run every Sunday night to calculate the
past week's activity. In my scheduler code (Java), I know the start and
end times, which I want to map to '?' parameters in my SQL. What chain of
events has to happen?
Re: Setting parameters via API [message #345521 is a reply to message #340109] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: jasonweathersby.alltel.net

Phillip,

In the report engine api the run task and the runandrendertask have
methods that use task.setParameterValue(s)
either use task.setParameterValue(parmname, parmvalue)
task.setParameterValues(parmmap);
IGetParameterDefinitionTask is used to get parameter info, primarily to
build user entry dialogs.

Jason


Phillip Mills wrote:
> I'm missing something that I suspect must be obvious. Using the report
> engine API, I have no problem running and rendering a report. I also see
> calls to find out all kinds of information about report parameters through
> the IGetParameterDefinitionTask. What I don't see is the mechanism for
> setting a parameter.
>
> Let's say I schedule a report to run every Sunday night to calculate the
> past week's activity. In my scheduler code (Java), I know the start and
> end times, which I want to map to '?' parameters in my SQL. What chain of
> events has to happen?
Re: Setting parameters via API [message #349586 is a reply to message #340109] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jasonweathersby.alltel.net

Phillip,

In the report engine api the run task and the runandrendertask have
methods that use task.setParameterValue(s)
either use task.setParameterValue(parmname, parmvalue)
task.setParameterValues(parmmap);
IGetParameterDefinitionTask is used to get parameter info, primarily to
build user entry dialogs.

Jason


Phillip Mills wrote:
> I'm missing something that I suspect must be obvious. Using the report
> engine API, I have no problem running and rendering a report. I also see
> calls to find out all kinds of information about report parameters through
> the IGetParameterDefinitionTask. What I don't see is the mechanism for
> setting a parameter.
>
> Let's say I schedule a report to run every Sunday night to calculate the
> past week's activity. In my scheduler code (Java), I know the start and
> end times, which I want to map to '?' parameters in my SQL. What chain of
> events has to happen?
Re: Setting parameters via API [message #349661 is a reply to message #340109] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jasonweathersby.alltel.net

Phillip,

In the report engine api the run task and the runandrendertask have
methods that use task.setParameterValue(s)
either use task.setParameterValue(parmname, parmvalue)
task.setParameterValues(parmmap);
IGetParameterDefinitionTask is used to get parameter info, primarily to
build user entry dialogs.

Jason


Phillip Mills wrote:
> I'm missing something that I suspect must be obvious. Using the report
> engine API, I have no problem running and rendering a report. I also see
> calls to find out all kinds of information about report parameters through
> the IGetParameterDefinitionTask. What I don't see is the mechanism for
> setting a parameter.
>
> Let's say I schedule a report to run every Sunday night to calculate the
> past week's activity. In my scheduler code (Java), I know the start and
> end times, which I want to map to '?' parameters in my SQL. What chain of
> events has to happen?
Re: Setting parameters via API [message #358322 is a reply to message #345521] Fri, 25 January 2008 08:46 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: pmills.systemcore.ca

Jason Weathersby wrote:

> In the report engine api the run task and the runandrendertask have
> methods that use task.setParameterValue(s)
> either use task.setParameterValue(parmname, parmvalue)
> task.setParameterValues(parmmap);

Thanks! I'll have a look in that direction.

(A "BIRT Cookbook" would be wonderful. There's a big contrast between the
helpfulness of the report design tutorials and the bare API listings in the
programming sections of Eclipse help books.)
Re: Setting parameters via API [message #358397 is a reply to message #345521] Fri, 25 January 2008 08:46 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: pmills.systemcore.ca

Jason Weathersby wrote:

> In the report engine api the run task and the runandrendertask have
> methods that use task.setParameterValue(s)
> either use task.setParameterValue(parmname, parmvalue)
> task.setParameterValues(parmmap);

Thanks! I'll have a look in that direction.

(A "BIRT Cookbook" would be wonderful. There's a big contrast between the
helpfulness of the report design tutorials and the bare API listings in the
programming sections of Eclipse help books.)
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