Pentaho 7 CE Report Designer Hyperlink BUG

Question

I have been upgrading my reports to pentaho 7 CE, i have came around a weird issue, when using hyperlinks on a cell to open sub report, upon login to the biserver via the Report Designer Hyperlink window, SERVER URL and PATH both are auto filled with BI SERVER URL, and when selecting the Report to hyper link via the BROWSER button, the parameters of the drilldown report does not appear on the Report Parameters Tab, this was working fine in the Pentaho 6 CE Report Designer, can anyone suggest something use full?

I tried Pentaho Repository Legacy option, the Parameters appear fine, but the link is not generated on the report then

upon selecting the report when hyperlinking it gives error:

org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException: Expecting // to follow the scheme in URI "http:/localhost:8080/pentaho".

:( please assist anyone..

Answer 1

I was having the same issue so I started to debug the Report Designer and I realize that they created a new class to manage the dialog when you're using the Pentaho hyperlink: SwingRemoteDrillDownUiProfile, I commented the line where this class was used and uncommented the other lines inside the file
org\pentaho\reporting\designer\extensions\pentaho\drilldown\configuration.properties as follows:

#org.pentaho.reporting.designer.core.editor.drilldown.profiles.pentaho-sugar=org.pentaho.reporting.designer.extensions.pentaho.drilldown.swing.SwingRemoteDrillDownUiProfile
org.pentaho.reporting.designer.core.editor.drilldown.profiles.pentaho-sugar=org.pentaho.reporting.designer.extensions.pentaho.drilldown.PentahoSugarDrillDownUiProfile
org.pentaho.reporting.designer.core.editor.drilldown.xul-document.pentaho-sugar=res://org/pentaho/reporting/designer/extensions/pentaho/drilldown/sugar-xaction-drilldown.xul
org.pentaho.reporting.designer.core.editor.drilldown.xul-controller.pentaho-sugar=org.pentaho.reporting.designer.extensions.pentaho.drilldown.PentahoSugarDrillDownController

The configuration.properties file can be found inside report-designer-ext-pentaho-7.0.0.0-25.jar for pentaho 7.0 or ext-pentaho-7.1.0.0-12.jar for pentaho-7.1.