Actuate BIRT Viewer provides a toolbar and context menus that support many of the formatting, sorting, and grouping tasks you perform on data. The toolbar and menus also support adding or deleting columns or groups, and working with fonts and text alignment. You also can print reports and export content or data. Enable or disable each of these features using the configuration file iv_config.xml. Its location is:

The iv_config.xml file contains lists of features that are enabled or disabled based on security roles as defined in Actuate iHub. The default roles included for iv_config.xml are:

The Active Portal roles are created when iHub is installed. You can add additional iHub roles as needed. Each set of features for a role is called a feature control. Each feature control contains the user role being described, and the set of features that are marked individually as available or not available. The following section of iv_config.xml shows the default feature control for the Active Portal Advanced role:

All <FeatureControl> tags are placed within the <FeatureConfiguration> element. Each feature is described by the <Feature> tag, and its availability is described with the <Availability> tag. If a particular feature is available to a role, availability is set to true. If the feature is not available, it is set to false.

Exception stack trace display is also controlled in the iv_config.xml file. When an exception occurs, the viewer can display a stack trace can be displayed in the exception dialog. The trace is used for support purposes, and is set to false by default. This value is not associated with user roles and is placed outside the <FeatureControl> tag. The format of the iv_config.xml file appears as shown in the following code:

Table 13‑1 lists the features that can be set, and how the availability tag affects them.