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BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

You're reading from   BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting Create, Design, Format, and Deploy Reports with the world's most popular Eclipse-based Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511667
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Ward John Ward
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing BIRT 3. The BIRT Environment and First Report 4. Visual Report Items 5. Working with Data 6. Report Parameters 7. Report Projects and Libraries 8. Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns 9. Scripting and Event Handling 10. Deployment

Gauge chart


With the next chart, the guage chart, we will expand on the interactivity a bit and demonstrate how drill-downs work. In addition to viewing the static chart, we want the user to be able to click on the chart and have it pull up an external report with the details for a particular user. This is called a drilldown.

The following meter chart will demonstrate an employees sales vs. a target amount per month, let's say 3000, on a 5000 dollar scale. This will be broken out and grouped monthly in the query statement. When the user clicks on the chart, it will bring them to the detail report we created last chapter for Employee sales.

  1. 1. Create a new report titled Employee_Sales_Guage.rptDesign.

  2. 2. From the library, drag over the dsClassicCars data source.

  3. 3. Create a new dataset called employeeSales using the following query:

    select
    CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEENUMBER,
    CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME || ', ' || CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME name,
    sum(CLASSICMODELS.ORDERDETAILS...
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