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Eclipse BIRT and JavaScript in reports

With Firefox 5, Firefox 6, Chrome 13, Chrome 14 and Chrome 15 all JavaScript embedded in a Eclipse BIRT report don’t work anymore. Nothing is executed

After some googling I find out that the problem is really new and reported in the BIRT issue tracker: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351217.

After half a day of struggling in BIRT viewer code I found the problem!

The file webcontent/birt/ajax/ui/report/AbstractReportComponent.js contains the code

 //  Internet Explorer has a funky execScript method that makes this easy
 if ( window.execScript )
     window.execScript( scripts[i].innerHTML );

this is not executed by new browsers and therefore all javascript is ignored. I’ve changed this block of code with

//  Internet Explorer has a funky execScript method that makes this easy
if ( window.execScript ){
    window.execScript( scripts[i].innerHTML );
}else {
    with (window) {
        window.eval(scripts[i].innerHTML);
    }
 }

and now it works again!