BIRT Theme not displaying on tomcat

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We have three distinct report themes defined with in a library, they all consist of header colors, text justification, text color, data sources, etc. We apply a theme to a report and the changes show up in the BIRT Web Viewer within Eclipse, but when we deploy our application that uses the BIRT viewer to Tomcat, the themes are no longer displayed.

We also have four data sources defined within the library that all the reports use, and those stay put after the deployment, it is just the CSS coming over that is ignored or dropped.

I have searched and searched for this, and the only thing I've found was an issue on stackoverflow from 2008ish.

Any thoughts, or suggestions?

Thanks,

Ian

Eclipse Indigo SR2 BIRT 3.7.1 Tomcat v6.0

Themes are defined as:

 ...
 <themes>
    <theme name="defaultTheme" id="2">
        <styles>
            <style name="table-header" id="6">
                <property name="backgroundColor">#660033</property>
                <property name="backgroundPositionX">left</property>
                <property name="fontWeight">bold</property>
                <property name="color">#FFFFFF</property>
            </style>
        </styles>
    </theme>
    <theme name="dccTheme" id="260">
        <styles>
            <style name="table-header" id="261">
                <property name="backgroundColor">#730000</property>
                <property name="backgroundPositionX">left</property>
                <property name="fontWeight">bold</property>
                <property name="color">#FFFFFF</property>
            </style>
        </styles>
    </theme>
    <theme name="mccTheme" id="263">
        <styles>
            <style name="table-header" id="265">
                <property name="backgroundColor">#005281</property>
                <property name="backgroundPositionX">left</property>
                <property name="fontWeight">bold</property>
                <property name="color">#FFFFFF</property>
            </style>
        </styles>
    </theme>
</themes>
...

I do not know what the BIRT Web Viewer is; but I don't think that this question has anything to do with Adobe Flex. Am I correct? If you found a related question, can you provide a link to it? — JeffryHouser

aleroot aleroot · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-30T06:31:18

It depends on how you have defined the theme inside the library, if you have linked the CSS then you have to put even the CSS files inside the war that you deploy, if you want to avoid to put CSS files in the war you have to import CSS files into the library .

When you set the theme that is enclosed in a library you have to specify the fully qualified name :

libraryname.dccTheme

BIRT Theme not displaying on tomcat

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