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  1. Pentaho Reporting and Pentaho Report Designer
  2. PRD-5134

As a reporting user I want sufficient build in support to locate problems in the report design quickly and efficiently.

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    • Type: Story
    • Status: Open
    • Severity: Medium
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Fix Version/s: Backlog
    • Component/s: Usability, User Interface
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      Description

      When working with large reports, it can be difficult, if not impossible to locate elements that cause problems or that have style or attribute properties set to a given value.

      Currently, one would have to look at each element in all the bands and subreports to hopefully find the element that was causing problems. Most power users at that point use an UNZIP tool to crack open the PRPT file to manually search the XML files instead.

      This story asks to make it easier to filter elements, attributes and styles to make it easier to fix problems in a report, and to detect errors based on invalid element settings and to make it possible to trace that error back to the element in the report designer. Outside the report designer, the reporting engine should provide a new log mechanism to allow administrators to detect these errors and to inform the user that their reports have problems.

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            Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PRD-5323 Request for a search facility in Report Designer

            • Unknown - Priority Unknown or Unassigned
            • Closed
            is related to

            New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PRD-5135 As a reporting user I want to be notified when an element cannot handle a given value

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Open

            New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PRD-5136 As a reporting user I want to be informed of formula errors like DIV0 and NA and want to trace them back to the element/expression and field(s) that cause them.

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Open

            New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PRD-5137 As a reporting user I want to be informed when the result of an Style or Attribute expression cannot be converted to the target type needed for that property

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Open

            Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PRD-1719 As a report designer, I want an action that only shows the properties that I've edited on the style and attributes.

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Open

            Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PRD-3500 As a reporting user I want to filter/narrow down the available style and attribute properties based on a input string

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Open

            Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PRD-2935 As a report designer I would like to filter elements by attribute or style setting

            • Medium - An issue that impacts the ability to use Pentaho in a production environment but business operation is able to continue, although it may, to a certain extent, be hindered. A viable documented workaround exists for the issue and can be used in a production environment.
            • Reopened

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                Reporter:
                tmorgner Thomas Morgner
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