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Bug 316151

Summary:	Chart not displayed if a column name contains a backslash
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Patrick Godeau <pgodeau>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Heng Li <liheeng>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier, liheeng, wyan
Version:	2.6.1
Target Milestone:	2.6.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	Obsolete

Description Patrick Godeau

2010-06-08 10:57:11 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

If a dataset column name contains a backslash (for example "MY\COLUMN") and is used in a chart value series, there are 2 problems:
- You must replace MY\COLUMN with MY\\COLUMN to fix the error about a binding which does not exist.
- Then, the chart is displayed correctly in the preview, but not in the final report which is empty.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2010-08-19 05:41:37 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Identifier: 20100218-1602
> 
> If a dataset column name contains a backslash (for example "MY\COLUMN") and is
> used in a chart value series, there are 2 problems:
> - You must replace MY\COLUMN with MY\\COLUMN to fix the error about a binding
> which does not exist.
> - Then, the chart is displayed correctly in the preview, but not in the final
> report which is empty.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

For reproduce purpose, which database were you using that allows the backslash in column name?

I tried with scriptdataset and no matter I use \ or \\, chart preview dialog contains error.

Is that possible you could attach a report design that use scriptdatasource or flatfile that can reproduce the case(2):
>Then, the chart is displayed correctly in the preview, but not in the final report which is empty.

Comment 2 Xiaoying Gu

2010-08-19 06:20:41 EDT

Which BIRT build were you using?

I can only reproduce the issue #1 in release BIRT 2.6.0 release build.

Further more, in 2.6.0 release build, you can not create x-axis group even after change the column name to use "\\".  But this issue has been resolved in latest 2.6.1 (v20100819-0630)

Comment 3 Heng Li

2010-12-10 00:56:20 EST

This had been fixed in the latest check-ins. The cause is some special characters in binding name/column name don't be added backslash to ensure the string expression correct.

Comment 4 Xiaoying Gu

2010-12-13 03:24:03 EST

Verified in daily build 2.6.2.v20101210