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**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:09 PM

begunrom I have a html report that has a link to another report . I used to have a reference in it in the form http://bepentaho/pentaho/ViewAction?...action.xaction Since my new report is in the prpt format, this no longer works. What do i have to use now?

reporting_wizard If you link to a prpt report that is run directly, use "/content/reporting/reportviewer/report.html?solution={0}&path={1}&name={2}"

dmoran begunrom: if you look at plugin.xml for reporting in pentaho-solutions/system/reporting the url pattern is there for run, schedule and background too

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:11 PM

bamaer reporting_wizard: is there any documentation/examples for using rich-text, especially html

reporting_wizard no, I guess not. But its easy to explain:

reporting_wizard (1) Create a label with HTML content, beginning with <html><body>..

reporting_wizard (2) Set the attribute "rich-text-processing" to "text/html"

reporting_wizard (3) Enjoy

reporting_wizard the HTML/Richtext processing happens *after* all the data processing, so if you have fields that contain HTML, we will display the richtext properly. However, we do only support a subset of HTML at the moment, so tables or advanced CSS stuff will look weird

bamaer and it does need a full document structure, starting with <html><body>?

reporting_wizard @bamaer: Yes, otherwise the Swing-HTML parser may not recognize the content

reporting_wizard if you have content that is not a full document, then use a formula like this:

reporting_wizard ="<html><body>" & [your-field] & "</body></html>"

aswat @reporting_wizard: thanks for answering

bamaer ok, I'll try that

filc reporting_wizard: As an aside, how does that work for RTF?'

reporting_wizard same way. If your content is valid RTF (ie recognized by the Swing-parser) then just set the attribute to "text/rtf" and enjoy the work

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:13 PM

filc I'd like to have a user be able to subscribe to a report without having a to setup an xaction to email it to them.

reporting_wizard bursting and emailing is on the list. But it wont be in before sugar

dankins filc: i had the same requirement found a solution for public schedules - see http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/BISERVER-3743

reporting_wizard Pedro also added some extended mailing capabilites for the simple-reporting component. We can now generate HTML emails with embedded images

kcruzada filc: "I'd like to have a user be able to subscribe to a report without having a to setup an xaction to email it to them." We have that planned for SUGAR from the User Console.

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:17 PM

filc I'd like sub-reports distinguished better. When multiple reports are open with sub-reports it's hard to know which tab is the main report, and which sub-report belongs to which main report.

reporting_wizard @filc: Agree with that. It can be a pain. Would color-coding the tabs help? IE: Master-report and its subreports share the same color of tabs

kcruzada filec: yeah... we struggled with this too..

filc reporting_wizard: Yes. Master report could be bold or a slightly darker colour.

kcruzada what about naming convention... master report:sub report name

reporting_wizard Kurtis, with many tabs open, this just makes the tabs larger. Lets give them a distinctable icon and color

kcruzada just throwing out suggestions... an icon... and a hover tip with the master-report:subreport wouldn't hurt.

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:19 PM

filc If I do a print preview in the swing viewer I'd like to immediately see what it'd look like in PDF format. At the moment I have to go back and run the PDF (and enter parameters), I'd like to be able to click show PDF button within the swing preview.

filc I know the

filc export option exists, but then I have to save the PDF

reporting_wizard you should not see a difference between the swing-preview and PDF, as both are driven by the same renderer

filc reporting_wizard: OK, but if I want to double check.

reporting_wizard and within the swing-preview, there is no way to show PDFs - as PDFs are displayed by external programs (usually Acrobat Reader or XPdf or so)

filc I know... but a button within the swing-preview to re-run the report with the already input params to an external viewer would be great.

reporting_wizard aye, we can put that on the list if you JIRA it

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:21 PM

filc It would be nice to highlight the section on the left in the report designer (where it says "Page Header", "Details", etc) when the relevant section is chosen in the structure view. JIRA?

codek thats a good one filc

reporting_wizard JIRA. As it does it for the first selection, but after that it just sticks with whatever was first

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:23 PM

filc Why do I need to press shift to get rubber-banding multiple select to work? Can PRD go into rubberbanding mode as soon as I drag the cursor?

reporting_wizard @flic: This was due to a request to have a single-click dragging in PRD

reporting_wizard if we have single-drag, there can be no rubberbanding

filc reporting_wizard: But if I'm not over an element then PRD can go into rubberbanding mode.

reporting_wizard it also caused problems for subbands. If they were selected, should we move the band or do rubberbanding?

reporting_wizard So we made it explicit by letting users hold shift for selection operations

filc reporting_wizard: OK not a biggy

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:24 PM

haubuchon Quick localizing question: I haven't see where to put a user friendly name for the prpt, to appear in the PUC, and having a different name in a different language (like we could do with .properties files in 3.0) Might be a BI-Server topic ...

reporting_wizard so far (3.5-GA) document metadata is not localizable. It will be in 3.6

haubuchon Excellent !

**dmoran** · 10-28-2009 04:26 PM

icedstitch one thing I found interesting, is that once you mark something with an html a href tag, you can't use PRD to remove the attribute until you unzip the prpt file and remove that xml line

reporting_wizard not being able to delete a HREF? Bug!

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filc I'd like the "Data Sets" option in the data panel to be always open at least one level deep. If I go into a report I want to know where the datas coming from, either inherited, or is it sourced by this report

reporting_wizard @flic: Jira it