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BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511667
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Ward John Ward
Profile icon 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 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

Where do I get BIRT?


Our first task should be to download BIRT. The typical location for everything BIRT related is the Eclipse website. Browsing to http://www.eclipse.org/birt will take us to the BIRT homepage. Here, we can get the latest news about BIRT, including status of upcoming releases, news on books, conferences, and access to the BIRT newsgroups where we can ask questions about BIRT. The newsgroups are an excellent resource for BIRT questions as they are frequented by the BIRT developers and BIRT Project Management Committee members. The following is a screenshot of the current BIRT project homepage:

The homepage is also where one can get the various BIRT distributions such as the All-In-One Eclipse package. This distribution contains a prepackaged version of Eclipse, which is configured with BIRT, the BIRT Standalone Report Designer, and contains information about retrieving and building BIRT from source.

At the time of this writing, 2.6 is the latest BIRT release, which is what...

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