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by John Ward
BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting
BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting
BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started
Introduction to BI
The current state of the BI market
The need for open source reporting
Why BIRT?
What is BIRT?
The origins of BIRT
Features of BIRT
Eclipse framework
BIRT distributions
Conventions used in this book
Summary
2. Installing BIRT
BIRT prerequisites
Software requirements
Hardware requirements
Where do I get BIRT?
Installing BIRT from the All-In-One package
Installing BIRT All-in-One under Linux
Installation of BIRT through the Eclipse Plugin update program
Building BIRT from source
Summary
3. The BIRT Environment and First Report
A basic scenario
The BIRT perspective
The BIRT workbench
The Navigator
The Outline
The Palette
The Data Explorer
Resource Explorer
Property Editor
Report Designer
Report Designer
Setting up a simple project
Creating a simple report
The hidden views
Getting access to cheat sheets and the simple listing report tutorial within Eclipse
Summary
4. Visual Report Items
Labels
Images
Text and Dynamic Text
Grid
Aggregation
Summary
5. Working with Data
BIRT data capabilities
Understanding the data components of BIRT
The Data Source
XML Data Source
Flat file data adapter
The JDBC Data Source
Datasets
Dataset for flat files
JDBC Datasets
Joined Dataset
Creating data using the data store
Tables
Creating tables using drag and drop
Creating tables manually
Groups
Lists
Aggregations
Web service Data Source
Adding additional data aware components to the palette
Summary
6. Report Parameters
Why parameterize reports?
Dataset parameters and report parameters
Getting input from the user
Creating parameter binding the easy way
Dynamic Report Parameters and Filters
Cascading parameters
Parameter grouping and reports with multiple parameters
Setting default parameter values
Summary
7. Report Projects and Libraries
Report projects
Creating new Report Projects
Importing and exporting Report Projects
Other project options
Libraries
Creating a new library
Adding components to a library
Adding a data source to a library
Adding a visual element to a library
Using components stored in a library
Updating components in the library to update reports
Adding existing components in reports to libraries
Master Pages
Summary
8. Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns
Pie chart
Pie chart with explosions
Pie charts—working with percentages
Gauge chart
Bar chart
Summary
9. Scripting and Event Handling
Types of Scripting
Expressions
Event Handling
Contexts
Adding elements to report
Removing elements from a report
Adding sorting conditions
Affecting behavior of report rendering based on condition through script
Scripted data source
Using Java objects as Event Handlers
How Chart Event Handling differs from other report items
Chart events and the bookmark property for interactivity
Multiselecting parameters and binding them to a dataset through Property Binding
Using the MultiSelect parameter in an Event Handler
Using the Innovent Custom Script Libraries for query binding
More scripting examples
Summary
10. Deployment
BIRT Viewer
Installing reports into the Web Viewer
Accessing reports in the Web Viewer
Command line tools
Report Engine API
Outputing to different formats
Summary
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