Report preview not showing hardcoded XML field value - birt

I have an xml file with a simple structure like the following.
The following is what I have configured for my data set retrieval for the name attribute called 'CLNNAME'. And the value 'Hello' is displayed when previewing the report.
Then I have the following which is the one I want use but for some reason it does not display the value when previewing the report. Any shed of light into why the weird behaviour occurs when attribute names are hardcoded. Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Change text of Please fill out this field tooltip in Joomla 3

It is set by default that when I create input fields and set them to be required, when users don't fill in anything, they got a massage:
Please fill out this field
I am creating a website with Joomla, and this tooltip pops out in every browser displaying the above text. How to change the text.
I tried to look up in Joomla language ini files, but no success. Is there some easy way to change this, or some advice where it could be?
This is not a Joomla string, it's the message displayed by the HTML5 required attribute. To change the message you have to check the loads of suggestions in the following questions:
HTML5 form required attribute. Set custom validation message?
How to change default “please fill out this field” in two field
if you are writing your own component (or module/plugin), it sounds like this is the description - field in the form-xml for your component. If the form is auto-generated from a component-creator, the file should be found in
/(administrator/)components/com_yourcomponent/models/forms
but some more info on where/what you are doing would help.
regards Jonas

Knockout set initial value of an input field where html is allowed

I have two input fields first name and last name.
Application was running really well.
Suddenly someone came in from Mars and input something like this in those input fields
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)!
for both first name and last name. Now don't ask me why he did this cause in Mars this is very common. You can try it on this fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/
This text then went into my database and now when i retrieve it it came back like this
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)
which is ok for me as its html and I can place it back into knockout and it gets populated as html as you can see in fiddle above. However this Mars guy then thought that on Earth this is not a nice name to be with so he tried to edit field.
The above fiddle is kind of that edit page which shows him old value at bottom and two fields at top. He does not know html so he thought we have changed his name in input fields however I need to know
When passing text to knockout to give initial value to an input field is it possible to tell it that consider this text as html so it renders properly in input field
The other way around is to send him to http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp and tell him about reserved HTML characters. This info has been stored in database (using Entity Framework simple person.fname and person.lname both with attribute AllowHTML) so on my fiddle i have just placed it in two variables and you can see how actual text boxes are different than html below. If i dont bind using Knockout then actual text is shown in these boxes and user can edit <>' signs without any problem.
Anyone with a solution before he leaves our planet. This can change alien life on our planet.
Update
If i go into this field and paste (~'##~>?<+!""*%$)" binding works fine and you can copy this and paste it into fiddle to see that. However its not taking that value from Javascript variable to knockout expects it to be a string and html special characters are not shown properly in input field.
We have done another test without Knockout and this text does get rendered within the field when you try to edit it its fine.
We have updated JSfiddle to work without JQuery and its the same result if you store it in a js variable and give not value to input field
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/3/
If we assign value to input field and just use jQuery to populate fullname then it works
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/4/
This last fiddle is a working example and we want Knockout to do what JQuery is doing.
I think the question then comes to how can this text be stored in javascript variable and placed into input field as html text so special characters appear unescaped. You can try unescape on jsfiddle that did not work for us.
Somewhere along the trip into (or maybe out of) your database, the value is being HTML-escaped. It's not Knockout itself that's doing it. You're going to need to track that location down, but you can't just disable it; you're going to have to replace it with something that sanitizes the result or otherwise you're opening yourself up to cross-site scripting attacks (any <script>s from external sources inserted into the input would have complete access to your data).
Any time you see the html: binding used, warning bells should go off in your head and you should VERY carefully to check to ensure that there's NO possibility of raw, unexamined user input making it into the string that gets displayed.
Ok here is what i did at the end
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/7/
I have done following:
I have added value attribute to input field and placed the input text as it came from server into it. Because I am using TextBoxFor in MVC it did that for me.
Before I apply knockout binding I have picked this value up using $('#kfname') and passed it to the actual binding so it used the value that came from server. Previously it was passed like (#Model.fname,#Model.lname)
I think what this did was allowed jQuery to pick up the value and assign it to binding instead of variable
ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel($("#kfname").val(), $("#klname").val()));
Hopefully this would help someone using knockout.

Changing the BIRT hyperlink at run time

Is my expectation valid? If yes, please guide me.
Local machine->local server process-> I generate Birt report-> which contain hyperlinks hard coded for example: http://www.ip_one.com/birtserver/parameters...(this is fine and points to another report and get me the report also when I hit the Url from inside the generated pdf report).
Now, what I need is to change ip_one to suppose ip_two once I hit the hyperlink which is inside the pdf(on the fly) keeping all the other parts of the url intact.
I am using birt-rcp-report-designer-4_2_2.
Thanks in advance.
It sounds like you are trying to dynamically create a hyperlink at report run time.
In the properties editor of the report item that has your link (i.e. label), edit the hyperlink. In the Hypelink Options (pop-up) to the left of "Location" field is the button ab| select 'JavaScript' Syntax.
You will be able to create the URL using JavaScript.

VB6, ActiveReports, and CanGrow property

I've got an ActiveReport which has a textbox populated at run time. The "cangrow" and "multiline" properties are both set to "true".
When I run the report on my machine, the report prints out fine with all of the text set at run time. IE: "Dear John, hello -- how are you..." There's only about 250 characters for this textbox.
However, one of the machines downstairs will only print the name of the textbox. IE: "txtVerbage". A blank report with "txtVerbage" in the middle of it, where the body (see above) should be.
Has anyone else had this experience? I've been banging my head against the wall for days now.
Thanks,
Jason
Its probably the timing of when you're setting the Field/TextBox value. Make sure you set it in the Format event of the section containing the control (e.g. Detail_Format). Using the BeforePrint or AfterPrint or one of the Report events can yield unpredictable results like this.
Also be sure you set the Field.DataValue property and not the Text property.
Some background information on this is in the articles below:
ActiveReports Architecture: Report Processing
ActiveReports Architecture: Events
Navigable documentation w/ TOC
Hope this helps!
Scott Willeke
GrapeCity
The data you access from downstairs is not there. That is why when you bind the data to the report, nothing appears. The reason you see txtVerbage is because that is what you called the text control and that was the default text there.
So you need to make sure that you are actually getting data.

Access rdlc elements from code behind file

can you please give any sample code for accessing the rdlc elements from code behind file.
I have a text box in the rdlc file, i have to set the value for that from code behind file. Please help me
Thanks
P S Marimuthu
You can just load the RDLC code as XML using XDocument or XmlDocument or whatever you want, and then query and update the file accordingly as you wish, and then save the RDLC. If you have a value you want to set programatically this way, you can define a hidden report parameter and use the DOM to update that parameter programatically in the same way.

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