PITA Day

Well it's happened again. I've hit a roadblock - mainly because the Pentaho documentation does not cover BIRT integration very well.

I've been working for the better part of the day to get a chart to work in Pentaho, which shouldn't have been as hard as it seems to have become after today's festivities.

I tried using the report designer to make the chart, but it is no where near as intuitive as BIRT - therefore, I wanted to work with a BIRT chart...... which I have built in the BIRT Report Designer and have been trying to plug it into the Pentaho Design Studio with an .xaction . Of course, I end up with the following:

Error: BIRT.ERROR_0007 - error running report Task_Master\Reports\mold_metric_by_jobtype.rptdesign - org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.EngineException: The design file has error and can not be run. (org.pentaho.plugin.eclipsebirt.BIRTReportComponent)

Debug: Starting execute of Task_Master/Reports/mold_metric_by_jobtype.xaction (org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)
Debug: Getting runtime context and data (org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)
Debug: Loading action sequence definition file (org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)
Debug: SolutionRepository.DEBUG_FILE_PATH - getFile path=C:\Documents and Settings\ameadows\Desktop\pentaho-demo\pentaho-solutions\Task_Master\Reports\mold_metric_by_jobtype.xaction (org.pentaho.repository.filebased.solution.SolutionRepository)
Debug: Adding variable source request to parameter DEPARTMENT (org.pentaho.repository.filebased.solution.SolutionRepository)
Debug: Adding default value of "1" to parameter DEPARTMENT (org.pentaho.repository.filebased.solution.SolutionRepository)
Debug: audit: instanceId=905acb35-36fc-11dc-8a80-d52e03632182, objectId=org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext, messageType=action_sequence_start (org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext)
Debug: SolutionRepository.DEBUG_FILE_PATH - getFile path=C:\Documents and Settings\ameadows\Desktop\pentaho-demo\pentaho-solutions (org.pentaho.repository.filebased.solution.SolutionRepository)
Error: BIRT.ERROR_0007 - error running report Task_Master\Reports\mold_metric_by_jobtype.rptdesign - org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.EngineException: The design file has error and can not be run. (org.pentaho.plugin.eclipsebirt.BIRTReportComponent)
Error: RuntimeContext.ERROR_0012 - ActionDefinition for BIRTReportComponent did not execute successfully (org.pentaho.core.runtime.RuntimeContext)
Error: SolutionEngine.ERROR_0007 - Action sequence execution failed (org.pentaho.core.solution.SolutionEngine)

I doubt anyone will read this, but with the way my luck is going I'll be working on getting this to work for a while. If anyone knows of a solution, please post to here. If I can find the solution, I will of course reply to this message with it. Thanks for the help if anyone does post!