programmatic report pdf creation
Hello i'm wondering if there is a way to export a existing report programmatically to pdf.
So thats how i would like to do it. I'm using a plugin that runs as service task on the jazz server. So every 24h this service will be called. Now i would like to integrate the functionality to export a existing birt report to a folder onto the jazz server, for example to a pdf type. Do you offer a interface in your api to access the birt functionality? |
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The Jazz Team Server, includes the BIRT reporting engine which could be used to programmatically generate pdf.
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thank you for the answer of my post, i'm wondering if you are using a special method on the reports to access the birt functionallity to export existing reports
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rkelkenb wrote:
thank you for the answer of my post, i'm wondering if you are using a Please note that what I'm describing to you isn't committed API - that is, it could change in future versions. Having said that, we do this today and I'll describe how we do it. Take a look at the class IReportViewerService. It's a servlet that you can call which returns a rendered report in some format. At the top of ReportViewerService are some parameters which you could use to specify pdf output. (Specifically, append "&__format=pdf" to the URL). You'll also need to pass the __reportUUID or __queryUUID (depending on whether you're passing an IReportDescriptor or an IReportQueryDescriptor, respectively). If you're passing an IReportDescriptor, you'll also need to pass any parameter name/value pairs. __projectAreaUUID is also mandatory. The service will give you back a stream of bytes with the content type of "application/pdf". Hope this gets you started, let me know if you have any questions. james |