Question

I have BIRT integrated into web application. I can’t seem to find a way to get images to show up during development/preview within Eclipse and deployment. I have tried different setting. It works in one or the other, not both. I do not want to put images in the same place as the reports or embed them.

Please suggest what is the best place to put images so that there is a true WYSIWYG between development and deployed code.

Answer 1

It sounds like you’re adding an image file as a shared resource.

If you look in the XML Source of the report, you should see the image defined somewhere, such as:

    <image id="7">
        <property name="height">0.25in</property>
        <property name="width">3.0in</property>
        <property name="source">file</property>
        <expression name="uri" type="constant">report_folder/logo/my_logo.png</expression>
    </image>

When you deploy your report, it will look for the image in this folder, relative to the defined root folder. If you’re using the birt webviewer, you would set your root folder in the web.xml as:

<!--
    Temporary document files directory. Defaults to ${birt home}/documents
-->
<context-param>
    <param-name>BIRT_VIEWER_DOCUMENT_FOLDER</param-name>
    <param-value></param-value>
</context-param>