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Setting parameters via API [message #284959]

Thu, 24 January 2008 21:53

Eclipse User

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?

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Re: Setting parameters via API [message #284965 is a reply to message #284959]

Thu, 24 January 2008 23:13

Eclipse User

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?

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Re: Setting parameters via API [message #284972 is a reply to message #284965]

Fri, 25 January 2008 13:46

Eclipse User

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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