[DataVision-users] Running swing viewer/layout using CSV input with parameter file?

[Warrick W. <wa...@cw...>]

Another bizarre scenario...

I've got a file - ww3.csv - that has two strings per line

val1,val2
val3,val4
etc.

I've got a report design - ww3rd.xml - that specifies the source as

  <source>
    <charsep sep-char=",">
      <column name="repdate" type="string" />
      <column name="procdate" type="string" />
    </charsep>
  </source>

(and though it says "date" in the name, these really are strings in my 
CSV file)

I need 2 parameters - an ID and a name field - so I have a 
ww3param.xml file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<parameters>
  <parameter id="1"><value>theidvalue</value></parameter>
  <parameter id="2"><value>The Name String</value></parameter>
</parameters>

What I wanted to do was view the report in the Swing viewer (as if I'd 
done a "Report | Run" from the designer) and look at the output.

I tried this command line (on Win XP2 SP2):

datavision.bat -w -r ww3param.xml -e ww3.csv  ww3rd.xml

I get the "Open..." dialog popping up.

If I do

datavision.bat -f ww3.pdf -r ww3param.xml -e ww3.csv  ww3rd.xml

I get the expected PDF file.

Can I not invoke the Swing viewer from the command line? I was trying 
this as a proof of concept before I reworked something I did last week 
to use the CSV file approach.

What's the "Open..." dialog looking for when it opens up? I'm not sure 
which file it wants - parameters? csv data? report file?

Thanks.


-- 
Warrick Wilson
wa...@cw...