Configuring the Actuate BIRT Viewer toolbar using iv_config.xml
Actuate BIRT Viewer provides a toolbar and context menus that support many of the formatting, sorting, and grouping tasks you perform on data. The toolbar and menus also support adding or deleting columns or groups, and working with fonts and text alignment. You also can print reports and export content or data. Enable or disable each of these features using the configuration file iv_config.xml. Its location is:
<context root>\WEB-INF\iv_config.xml
The iv_config.xml file contains lists of features that are enabled or disabled. The following section of iv_config.xml shows the default feature control for all users
<FeatureControl>
<Role>All/Role>
<Features>
<Feature>
<FeatureName>SaveDesign</FeatureName>
<Availablity>true</Availablity>
</Feature>
<Feature>
<FeatureName>SaveDocument</FeatureName>
<Availablity>true</Availablity>
</Feature>
…
</Features>
</FeatureControl>
All <FeatureControl> tags are placed within the <FeatureConfiguration> element. Each feature is described by the <Feature> tag, and its availability is described with the <Availability> tag. If a particular feature is available, availability is set to true. If the feature is not available, it is set to false.
Exception stack trace display is also controlled in the iv_config.xml file. When an exception occurs, the viewer can display a stack trace can be displayed in the exception dialog. The trace is used for support purposes, and is set to false by default. This value is not associated with user roles and is placed outside the <FeatureControl> tag. The format of the iv_config.xml file appears as shown in the following code:
<IVConfig>
 <!-- flag to sign the report is running in iportal or BRDPro -->
<RunningMode>Iportal</RunningMode>
 <!-- customize file name generator -->
  <ExportNameConfig>
com.actuate.iv.utility.filename.DefaultFileNameGenerator
</ExportNameConfig>
 <!-- Config features -->
<FeatureConfiguration>
<!-- All -->
<FeatureControl>
…
</FeatureControl>
<FeatureControl>
…
</FeatureControl>
…
</FeatureConfiguration>
</IVConfig>
Table 4‑1 lists the features that can be set, and how the availability tag affects them.
Table 4‑1 Actuate BIRT Viewer feature set
Feature
Availability tag description
AdvancedSort
Shows or hides the Advanced Sort item in the context menu
Aggregation
Shows or hides the Aggregation item in the context menu
Analyze
Enables or disables the Analyze item in the cross tab toolbar and context menu
AutoEnableIV
Enables or disables interactivity by default
CalculatedColumn
Shows or hides the New Computed Column and Edit Computed Column items in the context menu
ChartSubType
Shows or hides the Chart Subtype item in the context menu
ChartProperty
Shows or hides the Chart Property item in the context menu
ColumnEdit
Shows or hides the Hide Column, Show Column, and Delete Column items in the context menu
CollapseExpand
Shows or hides the Hide Detail and Show Detail items in the context menu
ColumnResize
Shows or hides the Column Width item in the context menu
ConditionalFormat
Shows or hides the Conditional Formatting item in the context menu
EditReport
Shows or hides the Enable Interactivity item in the toolbar main menu
ExportData
Shows or hides the Export Data menu item in the toolbar main menu
ExportElement
Shows or hides the Export Content menu item in the context menu
ExportElementData
Shows or hides the Export Data menu item in the context menu
ExportReport
Shows or hides the Export Content menu item in the toolbar main menu
FacebookComments
Shows or hides the Facebook Comment menu item in the toolbar main menu
FlashGadgetFormat
Shows or hides the Format Flash Gadget item from the gadget context menu
FlashGadgetType
Shows or hides the Change Type from the gadget context menu
Filter
Shows or hides the Filter item in the context menu
Format
Shows or hides the Format, Change Font, and Alignment items in the context menu
GrandTotal
Enables or disables the Grand Total option in the aggregation dialog
GroupEdit
Shows or hides the Move To Group, Add Group, and Delete Group items in the context menu
HideShowItems
Shows or hides the Hide/Show Item menu item in the toolbar main menu
Highlight
Shows or hides highlighting
HoverHighlight
Shows or hides the mouse over rectangles on page elements
LinkToThisPage
Shows or hides the Link To This Page item in the main menu
MainMenu
Enables or disables the toolbar’s main menu
MoveColumn
Shows or hides the Move to Left and Move to Right items in the context menu
PageBreak
Shows or hides the Page Break item in the context menu
PageNavigation
Shows or hides the page navigation icons in the navigation bar
Parameter
Shows or hides the Parameter item in the toolbar
Print
Shows or hides the Print menu item in the toolbar main menu
Resize
Enables or disables the Resize feature
ReorderColumns
Shows or hides the Reorder Columns item in the context menu
SaveDesign
Shows or hides the Save Design menu item in the toolbar main menu
SaveDocument
Shows or hides the Save Document menu item in the toolbar main menu
ScrollControl
Shows or hides the scroll control panel in page content
ServerPrint
Shows or hides the Server Print menu item in the toolbar main menu
ShareFormat
Shows or hides the Copy Format menu item in the context menu
ShareStyle
Shows or hides the Copy Style menu item from the context menu
ShowTooltip
Shows or hides tooltips
Sort
Shows or hides the Sort Ascending and Sort Descending items in the context menu
SubTotal
Enables or disables the SubTotal option in the aggregation dialog
SuppressDuplicate
Shows or hides the Repeat Values and Do Not Repeat Values items in the context menu
SwitchView
Shows or hides the Switch View item in the context menu
Toc
Shows or hides the TOC menu item in the toolbar main menu
TextEdit
Shows or hides the edit text icon on text elements
Toolbar
Shows or hides the toolbar
ToolbarHelp
Shows or hides the toolbar Help menu item
TopBottomNFilter
Shows or hides the Top/BottomN item in the context menu