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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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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

Pie chart


In the following exercise, we are going to look at how to build a pie chart. A pie chart is a very common report type used in business to display percentages. In this example, we will create a pie chart to show what percentage an employee contributed to the total amount of sales. This will give us a visual representation of who the top employees are in terms of sales.

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

  2. 2. From the ClassicCarsLibrary.rptDesign library, add the dsClassicCars data source to the report.

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

    select CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEENUMBER,
    CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME || ', ' || CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME name,
    sum(CLASSICMODELS.ORDERDETAILS.PRICEEACH) sales
    from
    CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES,
    CLASSICMODELS.ORDERS,
    CLASSICMODELS.ORDERDETAILS,
    CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS
    where
    CLASSICMODELS.CUSTOMERS.SALESREPEMPLOYEENUMBER = CLASSICMODELS.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEENUMBER
    and CLASSICMODELS...
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