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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

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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