Bugs in datetime parameter of execution window and report

ReportServer (EN)
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I have found two bug in the execution view window and the rendering of the report in reportserver

  1. A small display bug. When I click on a datetime parameter in the execution window and click on {{Month Year}}, e.g. {{April 2017}} to select month and year, instead of showing “OK” to close the window I see " OK "(Screenshot: https://ibb.co/jRwrfa). Can I fix that by myself or do I need an update?

  2. I design reports using with BIRT. In the footer of the report I use the default page counter and the total number of pages(“pageNumber” and “totalPage”). In birt viewer those numbers are shown correctly (Screenshot: https://ibb.co/jdOe0a).
    In reportserver those values always are shown as “1”. (Screenshot: https://ibb.co/nOdhmF). How can I fix that?

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Hi skosmas,

  1. The links with the screenshots seem not to work, could you please check that?

Cheers,
Eduardo

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Hi skosmas,

  1. is this only happening in the reportserver preview window? What happens if you export to PDF (upper left → PDF Export)

Please open next time a thread per issue. These two issues are not related with each other.

Cheers,
Eduardo

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You are right, I’m sorry.

I corrected the links with the screenshots.

The pdf also has the problem with the numbering. All pages show “1 of 1”.

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Hi skosmas,

  1. you are right, this seems a bug, I raised ticket RS-2594 and we will come back when we have more information.

  2. What happens when you export the file to pdf with your BIRT client? Run → View Report → As PDF. I see the incorrect numbers here too.
    Anyhow, BIRT seems to have problems with pageNumber and totalPage:
    https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/273065/
    https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/457987/

This only seems to work when you run separate run and render tasks. In reportserver, currently this is not the case.

Regards,
Eduardo

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  1. Thank you.

2)You are right, it doesn’t work when I run the report as pdf. I’ll look for a workaround.

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  1. For future reference I found a kind of workaround: I used the “Page n of m” autotext that creates a grid with 3 cells. I merged the 3 cells and at the text areas that were created I selected the option “Inline” instead of “Block” from “Advanced” → “Section” → “Display” in order to make all texts to display in one line closer together.
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Hi skosmas,

thank you for the workaround. It is working for me as a charm :slight_smile:

Regards,
Eduardo

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Hi skosmas
Can you Convert that date parameter in dd-mm-yyyy format?
Actually it yyyy-mm-dd format
Please reply if you know?

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Hi shashank,

try changing the file /etc/main/localization.cf:

<shortDatePattern></shortDatePattern>
<longDatePattern></longDatePattern>
<shortTimePattern></shortTimePattern>
<longTimePattern></longTimePattern>
<shortDateTimePattern></shortDateTimePattern>
<longDateTimePattern></longDateTimePattern>
<numberPattern></numberPattern>
<currencyPattern></currencyPattern>
<integerPattern></integerPattern>
<percentPattern></percentPattern>

Actually, the default shortDateFormat is: y-MM-dd.

Then you have to reload the configuration files: open the terminal CTRL+ALT+T and type “config reload”, or restart your reportserver instance.

Regards,
Eduardo

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Hi skosmas,

  1. is corrected and will be fixed in the next reportserver version.

Regards,
Eduardo