Why does my custom BIRT report open a new tab when viewed in RTC?
I am new to BIRT. I'm using RTC 5.0.2 with BIRT 3.2.23. I have to modify the BIRT report xml to say 3.2.22 to allow it to be opened at all in RTC. I created a simple report that is a stacked bar chart of work items by priority per month. When I try and open the report, it spawns a new tab to open the .svg in. The same thing happens if I try to create a widget using that report. How do I get the chart to show up within RTC, either in the report window, or on the dashboard in the widget?
Accepted answer
It appears to be a known issue, and the "solution" is to use the PNG format (all built-in reports with charts use the PNG format).
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/48942/birt-on-rtc-30-missing-image-display-plugin
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/109449/birt-report-can-not-show-after-deploy-it-into-rtc
In other words, SVG is not supported. In fact, even though the SVG content is correctly generated, the "Content-Type" is set to "application/octet-stream" (attachment), rather than "image/svg+xml" for the browser to recognize it.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/48942/birt-on-rtc-30-missing-image-display-plugin
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/109449/birt-report-can-not-show-after-deploy-it-into-rtc
In other words, SVG is not supported. In fact, even though the SVG content is correctly generated, the "Content-Type" is set to "application/octet-stream" (attachment), rather than "image/svg+xml" for the browser to recognize it.
One other answer
As far as I know, the "officially" supported version of BIRT is 2.6.2 for RTC 5.0.2. Not sure whether your issue is due to version incompatibility.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYMRC_5.0.2/com.ibm.team.reports.doc/topics/t_ccm_install_birt.html
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/165796/which-birt-version-to-use-with-clm-502
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYMRC_5.0.2/com.ibm.team.reports.doc/topics/t_ccm_install_birt.html
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/165796/which-birt-version-to-use-with-clm-502
Comments
Thanks for the info... I will install the "officially" supported version and try again... I'll let you know if that was the problem.
So, I tried this out once I got the correct version of BIRT installed... I get the same problem. My report is just a simple chart, "bare" on the page with 3 report parameters... any other ideas?