Using an Alternate Adobe Flex Compiler With the WebFOCUS Reporting Server

How to:

An active report for Adobe Flash Player is generated using a Java-based compiler that comes with the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK. The SDK is installed on the WebFOCUS Reporting Server and used to create an active report for Adobe Flash Player. As of Release 7.7 Version 04 of the WebFOCUS Reporting Server, the compiler has been upgraded to Flex 4.5.1.

Active Technologies provide backward compatibility, enabling you to use earlier SDKs to compile your existing interactive PDF and Flex documents with active reports for Adobe Flash Player. You can run an earlier version of the compiler, such as the compiler that comes with the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK 3.5, with WebFOCUS Reporting Server Release 7.7 Version 04 and higher.

If you are using the interactive PDF feature, make sure to copy the necessary WebFOCUS Enable for Adobe Flex SWC files to the \frameworks\libs directory of your Flex SDK installation. For more information, see the WebFOCUS Enable for Adobe Flex 4.x User's Guide.


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Procedure: How to Use an Alternate Adobe Flex Compiler With the WebFOCUS Reporting Server
  1. Download the Adobe Flex SDK. Previous releases produced by Adobe, including 3.5, are available at the Adobe SourceForge site.
  2. To install a copy of the SDK on your system, extract the ZIP file to your drive.
  3. In the WebFOCUS procedure that contains SET HTMLFORMTYPE=FLEX to generate the interactive PDF or Flex document with an active report for Adobe Flash Player, add the following command
    SET FLEXSDK = path_to_sdk

    where:

    path_to_sdk

    Is the full path to the SDK whose compiler you want to use to generate the interactive PDF or Flex document with the active report for Adobe Flash Player.


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