Howto get the SERVER_URL within a Birt report?

Guido Schneider (3.4k●13●85●114) | asked Jul 01 '12, 1:15 p.m.
edited Jul 01 '12, 1:16 p.m.

I would like to display the Server URL within a Birt report.
Following statement is returning me just "null".

reportContext.getAppContext().get("SERVER_URL")

Any idea what I'm missing or what I have not correctly configured on the server, so BIRT would know the Server URL?

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Guido Schneider commented Aug 26 '12, 3:24 p.m.

Has somebody successfully implement this in BIRT?

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Rafik Jaouani (5.0k●1●6) | answered Oct 01 '12, 7:02 p.m.
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reportContext.getAppContext().get ("SERVER_URL") will only return non null if it is necessary; i.e., a report is being displayed with data coming from a different server.

So 99 % of the time, you should use a relative URL.

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Erwin Kunz commented Oct 02 '12, 2:08 a.m. | edited Oct 02 '12, 2:09 a.m.

Hi Rafik, thank you for the info. Now it make sense. Actually everything works fine in my case because I force ServerURL to "" in case of Null , and Guido probably not,

In our case I we can probably just use "/ccm/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/"

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Erwin Kunz (946●8●64●86) | answered Sep 29 '12, 5:58 a.m.

I use following code in the hyperlink of a field

var serverURL = reportContext.getAppContext().get ("SERVER_URL");
if (serverURL == null) serverURL = "";
serverURL + "/ccm/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/"+row["WI_ID"]

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