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BIRT Reports in PDF Format [message #1403431]

Wed, 23 July 2014 16:03

Andy Mee

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2014

Junior Member

Hi,

I want to take an item from a dataset (a company's name in the raw data for example), and assign this to a variable so that I can use that variable elsewhere in my BIRT Report.

This is probably really simple to do but, being relatively new to BIRT reports, I don't know HOW or WHERE to do this. Can anyone help at all?

Please be gentle in any explanations as I may struggle to follow them. Many thanks,

Andy.

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Re: BIRT Reports in PDF Format [message #1407183 is a reply to message #1403431]

Tue, 12 August 2014 03:40

Michael Williams

Messages: 1925
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

In your onFetch of your dataSet, you can write a field to a variable with something like:

reportContext.setPersistentGlobalVariable("variableName",row["yourField"]);

In your report, you can recall this variable anywhere after an element that uses this dataSet with a call like:

reportContext.getPersistentGlobalVariable("variableName");

Hope this helps.

Michael

Developer Evangelist, Silanis

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