Setting the default template category
By default, the Report Template dialog displays the templates in the predefined category, Standard, as shown earlier in
Figure 13‑10. To view and select a template in another category, the user has to select a different category from the Category drop-down list. Typically, you want to make your custom templates more visible. You can configure BIRT Studio so that the Report Template dialog displays a different category of templates by default.
How to set the default template category
1 Open web.xml for editing. This file is in:
<context root>\WEB-INF
2 Change the value of the DEFAULT_REPORT_TEMPLATE_CATEGORY_NAME parameter from Standard to the name of the category whose templates you want the Report Template dialog to display by default. The following example shows the Sales category set as the default template category:
<param-name>DEFAULT_REPORT_TEMPLATE_CATEGORY_NAME
</param-name>
<param-value>Sales</param-value>
3 Restart the appropriate Windows service for the change to take effect.