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BIRT Product Catalog Report
Using the "Classic Models Inc." sample database, prints the Classic Models product catalog, grouped by product category. Provides product name, cost and description. Demonstrates one level grouping and using a grid within a table row to structure spacing. Also shows image inclusion and use of the value-of tag in text item…
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Paging
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This blog entry by Mark Lorenz was created in March 2006. It discuss some tips and tricks for controlling paging behavior in BIRT reports. It also includes some Java code showing the use of the BIRT runtime engine…
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Installing BIRT in JBoss RS
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A link to a JBoss Wiki page describing how to install BIRT with JBoss RS for both runtime and Maven usage (in <span class=\"wikiContent\">case you want to build and/or extend the Jboss RS BIRT engine). Includes a bash script for copying the BIRT…
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BIRT in Spring Web Applications
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This blog entry by Silvester Van der Bijl posted in August 2006 describes the steps necessary to integrate BIRT reports into a Spring Web application. Downloadable code is also provided.…
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Report Libraries and Templates
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">In this article Mark Gamble discusses creating a productive reporting environment for developers using BIRT report libraries and templates. Version 2.0 of BIRT is utilized in this…
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Using BIRT for Sguil Reports
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This tutorial by David Bianco describes in detail the steps to create Sguil reports using BIRT. It utilizes BIRT 2.1.2 with Tomcat on Linux using a MySQL database. BIRT report designs are available for download as…
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BIRT Design Engine API (DE API)
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Link to an excerpt from the book <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://safari.oreilly.com/0321443853'><em>Integrating and Extending BIRT</em></a> on the EDJ web site describing how to use the BIRT Design Engine API (DE API) to modify an existing report…
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OFBIZ Reports Using BIRT
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This tutorial describes in detail how to set up the BIRT RCP Designer application on a Windows machine as a client to an OFBiz database running on another machine. It also presents a brief tutorial on how to generate reports using sample sales…
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Hiding a BIRT Report Table
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Link to a blog entry by John Ward that describes how to hide a BIRT report table when no data is returned from the data set being used to populate it. Written in March, 2007 for BIRT…
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Adding Interactivity to a BIRT Report
Link to an article on the Eclipse Magazine web site by David Trainor and Jason Weathersby that describes how to add interactivity to Eclipse BIRT reports. Capabilities discussed include customizing a report table of contents, creating bookmarks, setting up hyperlinks to drill-through to detail reports, exporting data to…
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Batch Files to Schedule BIRT Reports
<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A </span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">link to a blog entry by John Ward describes the use of a batch file on the Windows operating system to schedule the running of BIRT reports.…
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Tribix - Extended Emitters for BIRT
<p><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This SourceForge project called Tribix provides an extended set of emitters that are alternatives to the built in emitters. These emitters produce XLS, PPT, and RTF and have versions that work with versions of BIRT from 2.0.0…
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Using the BIRT Report Engine API
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This Eclipse Developer's Journal article is an excerpt from the book <a data-ipb='nomediaparse'…
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Deploying BIRT Reports Using Stripes
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">In this blog article, Samaxes provides an example of deploying BIRT reports using the <a href=\"http://stripes.mc4j.org/\">Stripes</a>…
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Deploying BIRT with Jakarta Struts
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">This blog posting from Samaxes builds on Jason Wethersby\''s <a href=\"http://birtwb01.actuate.com/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=26\">BIRT deployment article</a> and looks specifically at deploying BIRT in a…
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Scripted Data Source for Web Services
<font size="-1" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A link to a blog entry by John Ward describing how to use a BIRT scripted data source to call a web service to supply data for a report. Written October, 2006.</font>http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/10/birt-scripted-data-source-to-call-web.html
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Exploring BIRT Deployment Options
<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <p>Some of the most common BIRT community questions are about deploying BIRT. The reason for this is not the complexity of deploying, but the many deployment options. In this…
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Calling the BIRT Report Engine API
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A link to a blog entry by John Ward describing how to call the BIRT Report Engine API (RE API) to access, execute and save the output of a report from within a Java program. Written July,…
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BIRT Tips for Java Developers
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A link to a blog entry by Mark Lorenz describing lessons he\''s learned from using BIRT for several months. It includes tips about logging, formatting dates, the BIRT thread model, footers on master pages, use of relative paths in the Firefox…
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Data Bindings in BIRT Reports
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A link to a sample chapter from the popular book "BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting" provided as a courtesy by Addison Wesley. It introduces the concept of column bindings in BIRT including what they are and how to create, edit and delete…