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BIRT-Designer changes (automatically) item-ID of existing item [message #1082393]

Thu, 08 August 2013 14:08

andi deraendi

Messages: 13
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

Hello folks!

Since I am debugging some hours by now without getting a clue, following question:

Does anybody know why, or under which circumstances BIRT-designer changes the ID of an item.

In my company we use many inherited libraries. Sometimes there are change-requests, demanding an extension of a "root" library.

The problem is, that designer sometimes changes the ID's of items which are not involved in the change request.
The change of an ID has impact on overridden values in "later" librarys.

p.ex.:

Library1
Item1 baseID="1", ID="12"
Item2 baseID="2", ID="22"

Library2
Item1a extends Library1.Item1 baseID="12" ID="123"
Item2a extends Library1.Item2 baseID="22" ID="223"
<overriden value>

Change-Request: Item3

Library1
Item1 baseID="1", ID="12"
Item2 baseID="2", ID="55" <- value changed automatically
Item3 baseID="3", ID="33" <- new item used somewhere else

Library2 (not touched)
Item1a extends Library1.Item1 baseID="12" ID="123"
Item2a extends Library1.Item2 baseID="22" ID="223" <- *
<overriden value>

* the overriden value is ignored 'cause library don't know base-ID changed

I can't figure out, why some ID's change and some ID's don't!?!?

any ideas?

thx
andi

[Updated on: Thu, 08 August 2013 15:34]

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Re: BIRT-Designer changes (automatically) item-ID of existing item [message #1086328 is a reply to message #1082393]

Wed, 14 August 2013 05:01

Michael Williams

Messages: 1925
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Can you attach some example files that will show me this issue happening? Thanks!

Michael

Developer Evangelist, Silanis

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Re: BIRT-Designer changes (automatically) item-ID of existing item [message #1110005 is a reply to message #1086328]

Mon, 16 September 2013 08:28

andi deraendi

Messages: 13
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

Could not create a reproducable case, sorry.

These kind of things do not happen very often. In our case a data binding (overidden value) got kicked out.
Therefore we got a ticket due to missing data on the report.

We are going to write a validator on checking in library files for avoiding these things.

I was asking the forum, hoping this is a known issue.

Maybe it's the handling of our ressource files, which causes these inconsistencies.

We have different layers for different customers, some used together, organized in different plugins.
A ressource-manager provides the appropriate libraries during runtime.

While designing we use ant-scripts providing all necessary libraries in a directory for designer.

Sometimes designer seems to reorganize a librarys ID's, which causes the issue described above.
Would be nice to know, which circumstances cause a reorganizing.

When we find a scenario to reproduce this issue on every plattform we will post this here.
I was wondering no one else observed similar problems!?

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