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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849511667

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

BIRT

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

John Ward

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. Preface

1. Getting Started

2. Installing BIRT FREE CHAPTER

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

Creating new Report Projects

Creating projects in BIRT is no different from creating projects of other types in Eclipse, such as Java projects.

In this screenshot we can see the New Project wizard with the different types of BIRT Projects available. This will vary based on the plugins we have installed. In this screenshot, I have a plugin for BIRT Web Projects and Charting web projects from earlier versions of BIRT.

As we have seen previously, report project creation is simple. The general steps to create a Report Project were illustrated in Chapter 3, The BIRT Environment and First Report. Therefore, I will touch only a few points as there are a few different ways to create projects in Eclipse.

Project creation is possible from the File menu and from the Navigator.

In the preceding screenshot, we can see the New option of the File menu, with the Project... option highlighted.

In this screenshot we can see the New menu in the Navigator, accessed using the right-click context menu. Creating...

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Authors (1)

John Ward

John Ward

John Ward is a consultant for Innovent Solutions, specializing in BIRT and e-commerce search and navigation solutions. Prior to that, John was an Assistant Vice President for Citibank, North America, managing the training MIS group and overseeing development of new technology-based training initiatives. John actively works with and tests BIRT—an open-source reporting platform built on Eclipse—including development work based on BIRT reports and the BIRT APIs. John also maintains The Digital Voice blog at http://digiassn.blogspot.com

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