In Maximo, using the BIRT ide to develop/modify reports, there is a section to allow the developer to add and modify parameters for the report. These parameters are usually entered by the user at runtime in a dialog. In the ide there are fields for 'prompt text' which appears next to the parameter, but this prompt text does not show up in Maximo. Is there a way to get this to show up in Maximo at runtime, instead of just in the ide at development time? Maximo 7.6.1.0 is being used.
From what you describe, I suspect you haven't generated a request page for your report. Select your desired report from the Report Administration app and use the button name "Generate Request page" to the bottom right of the table in the List tab of said app.
This should fix your problem.
Example screenshot in a related question:
how to generate request pages for multiple reports
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On an Apex page I have 3 reports and 1 diagram. Can I download all of this with one example? as a screenshot or completely in a CSV (without the diagram)?
If you are asking whether you can download result of those reports, then Apex allows you to use e.g. "Actions" button (in Interactive Report) with the "Download" option which offers CSV. Though, you'll have to do it report-by-report.
If it is a Classic Report, you have to enable CSV export in region's "Attributes" section.
If you are talking about exporting the whole application (so that you could move it to another database/workspace), then use "Export/Import" option within the App Builder.
Here I have a question that is it possible to create an interactive report.
I have a requirement like I have to approve bulk data in Maximo side with birt, in birt report I will keep check boxes who else will run that report they will select that checkboxes if they select the checkbox in the report, the same checkbox need to update in Maximo record. In Maximo also records contain checkboxes.
Two examples of how Maximo does this in the out of the box reports would be the Inventory ROP Analysis and Inventory EOQ Analysis reports - both come with the option on the last page to update Maximo with the suggested Economic Order Quantity or Re Order Point data. That's where I'd start.
The BIRT update reports are interesting. There are several actually. The update report is called directly from the runtime report, as #JohnHartin states. They are not registered directly to the Application. This is for security reasons.
The update report when executed will take the same input parameters you entered into the runtime report and essentially re-execute the report , except the update report has SQL which writes back to the DB. As mentioned as and example: the ROP Analysis. You will find the ".rptdesign" file in the {Maximo_home}/reports/birt/reports/INVENTOR folder on your Maximo build machine. (The report subfolder is the repository you import into BIRT tool to modify your reports.)
From your BIRT workstation navigate to the INVENTOR folder in your project browser and you can then see it in BIRT. Next, you will be able to open up the design file, (note the update reports have "update" as part of the design file name so real easy to identify.) Then you can examine the SQL in the Initialize method of the report.
Since this report works in conjunction with the Analysis report what happens when you touch the update button on the analysis report, is the data generated in the analysis report is parsed and sent as multiple update SQL transactions back to Maximo DB. It is incumbent upon you to be very careful making any modifications to the Analysis AND update reports together.
Hope this helps.
We have upgraded from cognos bi 8.4 to 10.1.
Reports are ran directly view links we provide straight to the prompt page, when the report is ran Cognos Viewer opens and report is displayed in pdf...however the users have an option on the toolbar on top right side to "open with report studio", how do i disable/hide this option??
It is beside the options to view report as html and excel etc.
I can see how to remove the view report at html by editing the system.xml file... but i cannot see how to remove this option for opening in report studio.
Any help would be good!
IBM has an article about this. Skip to the 'Using URL Commands' section.
In your link to the report, add '&cv.toolbar=false' to remove the toolbar that contains the Report Studio link. You can also add '&cv.header=false' to remove the Cognos View title bar.
If removing the toolbar is an issue (you need other functions), then you can remove options using system.xml
This includes options beginning with RV_ that will remove tools from the Report Viewer. However the 'Open in Report Studio' is not an option.
Your best bet in this case is to:
Remove the entire Toolbar ( RV_TOOLBAR )
use the option to add back in the required elements (XML output, saveas, etc).
With the toolbar removed, this may require some tweaking to achieve a desirable web page layout.
You can revoke an access to Report Studio for users.
Go to Cognos Administration -> Security -> Capabilities and set up access to RS there
As the title says, I would like to call the reports from forms without actually displaying the form. I am very new to Oracle forms. I tried to do the following but it didn't work:
1)Inserted the code to call the reports in WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE trigger.
2)Removed the canvas so that the form won't be displayed.
But I got the error
RM-30173: Module contains no canvases
Is it possible to do this?. I am trying to display the report when a menu item in an oracle forms application is clicked which in turn would call the above form but directly displaying
the report instead of displaying an UI.
Update:
I am using Forms Builder 10.1.2.
As for why I don't want to do this directly in the menu(MMB), the menu doesn't have an option to attach a report and I've already got a working form that generates an report but the code to call the report is written in a button-pressed trigger.
In,
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1107427&tstart=45, I am trying to do what Andreas Weiden, suggested in that thread.
I think your problem may be in limiting your menu options to only opening forms.
For example, you could instead have the menu in your form execute a form trigger which would call the report. Or a web.show_document to the url for the Report.
What version of Forms are you on? It's been a while since I did much with Forms, but this may give you a start.
I am only familiar with Reports 6i, and it was simple to just run the report from the menu.
We created a menu item that was PL/SQL Command Type, dropped the code to run the report module in the Menu Item Code box, and all was good. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do something similar in 10g reports.
Move the code from the form's button into a procedure in a common library. Attach the library to the form and to the menu module. Call the procedure from both the form button as well as the menu.
I solved the problem by creating a blank canvas in the 'dummy form' as 'FRM-30173: Module contains no canvases' was returned when no canvas was found in the form.
The approach suggested by Andreas Weiden here: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1107427&tstart=45 works well.
You could have also just created the report and just call it behind the menu option but hiding the report parameter form and the report would automatically begin to generate. In the menu option just before you call the report name just set the report paramform to hide and destype to screen. This would have save the trouble of creating a blank canvas and maybe having to suppress error messages if any was thrown.
I have created a Report using Crystal Report(Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0). In the Report Header section I have added a TextBox control to display header for the report. But when I execute the application the Text in the Report Header section is not displayed.
What should I do to view the text entered in the report header section?
Thanks in advance!
1) Are you sure you're running the most up to date copy of the report in the application?
The default behavior for the report header and textbox is that they are visible unless specified otherwise.
2) If the report header is being suppressed, it will appear as a darker shade than normally visible sections. If the report header looks to be suppressed, you need to check the Section Expert for the Suppress checkbox associated with the report header section (it can be set conditionally - kill the button next to the Suppress checkbox to see if there's any code. Generally the button text is red if there is any conditional logic).
3) If the report header is visible with no interference, check the suppression logic for the texbox - right click on the textbox, click properties. Same checklist as for the report header.