III. Accessing and Binding Data
by Nola Hague, Alethea Hannemann, Diana Peh
BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Installing BIRT
- II. Getting Started
- 4. Learning the Basics
- About BIRT reports
- Overview of the report design process
- About the report design environment
- Tutorial 1: Building a simple listing report
- 5. Planning Your Report
- Identifying the content of the report
- Determining how the report will be viewed
- Considering international reporting requirements
- Deciding the layout and format of the report
- Drawing a mock-up
- Considering reuse of report components
- Managing report design resources
- Deciding how the report will be deployed
- 4. Learning the Basics
- III. Accessing and Binding Data
- 6. Connecting to a Data Source
- 7. Retrieving Data
- 8. Binding Data
- IV. Designing Reports
- 9. Laying Out a Report
- 10. Displaying Text
- 11. Formatting Report Content
- Formatting data
- Formatting with styles
- Formatting data based on conditions
- Alternating row colors in a table
- Specifying alignment of content in a table or grid
- Adjusting the spacing of content in a report
- Displaying content across multiple columns
- Specifying alternate values for display
- Hiding elements based on conditions
- 12. Sorting and Grouping Data
- Sorting data
- Grouping data
- Tutorial 2: Grouping report data
- Task 1: Open the report design
- Task 2: Save the report as a new file
- Task 3: Add the credit limit field to the data set
- Task 4: Add credit limit data to the report
- Task 5: Group customer data by credit limit
- Task 6: Display credit limit ranges in the group header
- Task 7: Display aggregate information
- Task 8: Format the report
- Task 9: Preview the report in the BIRT report viewer
- Task 10: Display credit limit ranges in the table of contents
- 13. Aggregating Data
- 14. Writing Expressions
- 15. Filtering Data
- 16. Enabling the User to Filter Data
- About report parameters
- Planning to use report parameters
- Ways to enable user filtering
- Enabling the user to filter at query run time
- Enabling the user to filter after running the query
- Designing the presentation of report parameters
- Testing the report parameters
- 17. Building a Report That Contains Subreports
- Creating the report structure
- Tutorial 3: Building a report with side-by-side subreports
- Task 1: Create a new report
- Task 2: Build a data source
- Task 3: Build a data set for the customer report
- Task 4: Build a data set for the orders subreport
- Task 5: Build a data set for the payments subreport
- Task 6: Create the customer master report
- Task 7: Create the orders subreport
- Task 8: Link the orders subreport to the customers master report
- Task 9: Create the payments subreport
- Task 10: Link the payments subreport to the customers master report
- Task 11: Display only customers that have orders or payments
- Task 12: Display the subreports next to one another
- Task 13: Format the report
- Highlight the customer names
- Edit the column headings
- Change the date formats
- Change the number formats
- Increase the vertical space between elements
- Increase the horizontal space between the orders and payments tables
- Add borders around the tables
- Increase the space between the table borders and contents
- 18. Using a Chart in a Report
- 19. Displaying Data in Charts
- 20. Laying Out and Formatting a Chart
- Laying out and formatting the chart area
- Formatting the chart plot, title, and legend areas
- Formatting an axis
- Formatting a series
- Setting the series type
- Hiding a series
- Making a series translucent
- Setting the color palette for a series
- Adding and formatting a curve-fitting line
- Stacking series
- Working with different series types
- Setting the series depth of a chart with depth or a three-dimensional chart
- Formatting a three-dimensional chart
- Formatting an area-chart series
- Formatting a bar-chart series
- Formatting a line or a scatter-chart series
- Formatting a meter-chart series
- Formatting a pie chart series
- Formatting a stock-chart series
- Working with data points and data point labels
- Using styles to format a chart
- V. Enhancing Reports
- 21. Designing a Multipage Report
- Planning the page layout
- Controlling pagination
- Customizing the master page
- Using multiple master pages
- 22. Adding Interactive Viewing Features
- 23. Building a Shared Report Development Framework
- 24. Localizing Text
- Overview of the localization process
- Assigning a resource file to a report
- Assigning a resource key to a label or text element
- Changing localized text in a label or text element to static text
- Assigning a resource key to chart text
- Changing localized chart text to static text
- Assigning a resource key to a report parameter
- Editing a resource file
- Previewing a report in different locales
- 21. Designing a Multipage Report
- Glossary
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