Accessing the BIRT Report Viewer using a URI
The BIRT Report Viewer servlet displays a BIRT report and provides tools to affect the document and design files. This servlet provides both the BIRT Report Viewer and the BIRT Report Interactive Viewer. The Interactive Viewer is licensed separately from the viewer.
The viewer displays the report with toolbar options to navigate the report and a menu to perform additional tasks, as shown in Figure 12-1.
Figure 12-1 The BIRT Report ViewerThe Interactive Viewer displays the report with toolbar options to navigate the report, a menu to perform additional tasks, and provides context menus to edit and format report elements, as shown in Figure 12-2.
Figure 12-2 The BIRT Interactive ViewerThe viewer servlet supports rptdocument file formats. For backwards compatibility with previous releases, the viewer also supports the bizdocument file format.
Name
URI parameters
Table 12-1 lists and describes the URI parameters for the Interactive Viewer servlet.
Table 12-1 IV URI parameters _ _bookmark Name of the element of a report to display instead of the whole report file. _ _floatingfooter _ _format
n flashgadgetsxml: used to display flash gadgets in a fusion chart.
n reportlet: This is used together with _ _bookmark to show a particular part/element of the report. _ _from_page_range _ _from_page_style
n Used with the _ _format parameter. _ _imageid _ _instanceid _ _launchIV _ _locale Code for a locale. For example FR_fr specifies the French language and the country, France _ _page _ _report _ _rtl The URL that accesses iServer, such as
http://ESL02835:8000