Interactive Viewer servlet

Displays an Actuate BIRT report document with tools to affect the document and design files. The viewer has two modes, standard and interactive.

The Standard Viewer displays the report with toolbar options to save, print, show the TOC, and launch interactive mode, as shown in Figure 7-1.

Figure 7-1  Standard Viewer

The Interactive Viewer displays the report with toolbar options to navigate the report and provides context menus to edit and format report elements, as shown in Figure 7-2.

Figure 7-2  Interactive Viewer

The viewer supports rptdocument file formats.

Name

com.actuate.iv.servlet.IVServlet

Invoke the Interactive Viewer servlet as:

http://<web server>:<port>/<context root>/iv

URI parameters

Table 7-8 lists and describes the URI parameters for the Interactive Viewer servlet.

Table 7-8  Parameters for IV URI

URI parameter	Description
__bookmark	Name of the element of a report to display instead of the whole report file.
__floatingfooter	Boolean value to add a margin under the footer.
__format	A format for the displayed report: n   pdf: Adobe pdf n   xls: MS Excel n   doc: MS word n   ppt: MS powerpoint n   ps: Postscript n   html: html n   flashchartsxml, flashgadgetsxml: used to display a fusion chart n   reportlet: This is used together with __bookmark to show a particular part/element of the report.
__from_page_range	The page range of a report to display.
__from_page_style	The page style to use for a report in pdf or ps formats. n   auto: The page size and content size remains the same. n   actuateSize: Change the page size to fit the content. n   fitToWholePage: Change the content size to fit the page size. Used with the __format parameter.
__imageid	Name of the report file to display.
__instanceid	Name of the report file to display.
__launchiv	Boolean value that enables interactivity.
__locale	Code for a locale.
__page	A number for a page to render.
__report	Name of the report file to display.
__rtl	Name of the report file to display.
repositoryType	The name of the object to download.
serverURL	Contains the URL that accesses iServer, such as http://ESL02835:8000
userid	The user’s identifier, required to log in to the Actuate BIRT iServer.
volume	Contains a string value specifying the volume for this report.

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