Hiding the parameter form

Hi,
we are running reports in Viewer 10.1.2.48.18 using URLs made in Portal.
It works fine but sometimes the parameter form in Viewer is really not needed (even "wanted").
The report needs the parameters but the user has already made the selections in Portal and the LOVs are not very useful when in Viewer.
Is there a parameter I can add or some modification to the sheet I can do, to hide the parameter form?
Kind regards
Tomas Albinsson
Stockholm, Sweden

Well, I thought some more on this...
I wanted to hide the parameters from some reports. They have in common that a part of their title is "(skola)" (meaning school).
So I made a uix-hack. Note that this is not supported and dangerous and...
Make a security copy of the file <mid_home>/j2ee/OC4J_BI_Forms/applications/discoverer/discoverer/Worksheet.uix.
Edit the file.
At the end you'll find
</form>
</contents>
</body>
Add one line of javascript code, ending up with
</form>
<rawText text="<script> if('${uix.eventResult.workbookName}'.indexOf('(skola)')>-1) document.getElementById('paramshs').style.display='none'; </script>" />
</contents>
</body>
The parameter part of the report is kept in a table with the id paramshs. The above javascript code will simply hide that whole table if the name of the report contains "(skola)".
Note the use of < and > instead of < and >, to keep from breaking the xml code in the file.
Bounce discoverer (or the mid tier) and it should work.
Kind regards
Tomas

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