Accessing the Actuate JavaScript API
To use the Actuate JavaScript API from a web page, add a script tag that loads the Actuate JavaScript API class libraries from an Actuate application.
Start with a web page that contains standard HTML elements, as shown in the following code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="viewer1">
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://localhost:8080/webapp/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
… <!--functionality goes here-->
</script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The <script> element nested in the <div> element imports the Actuate JavaScript API libraries into the web page’s context. For example:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8080/webapp/jsapi">
</script>
localhost:8080 is the host name and TCP port for an available BIRT Viewer Toolkit web application host.
/webapp is the context root for the BIRT Viewer Toolkit web service.
/jsapi is the default location of the Actuate JavaScript API libraries.
Use additional script tags to call JavaScript functions for the page. Use the actuate.load( ) function to enable the components of the Actuate JavaScript API.
The scripts in this section are encapsulated in <div> tags for portability. Encapsulated Actuate JavaScript API functions can be used in any web page.