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Placing JDBC drivers for BIRT and e.Spreadsheet Reports
<p style=""margin-right: 0px"" dir=""ltr"">In order to utilize JDBC drivers to access data for your BIRT reports with the Web Viewer or through the Deployment Kit or iServer Express, the Jar files need to be placed in the proper directory. The following describes the location to place JDBC jar files according to the…
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Create and use of JS functions
Define any js function in the initialize like:function myFunction(str){dosomething;}reportContext.setPersistentGlobalVariable("myFunction",myFunction);To use this function in script or in expressions just call:myFunction("str");
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Combine reports
This examples shows how to combine HTML as well as PDF reports.
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Create report dynamically
This example shows how to create a report using the api's.<br /> The data set will be created dynamically according to the data input.<br /> A table will be also crated dynamically and filled with the created data set elements.
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BIRT - Writing an XML emitter
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This blog entry by John Ward shows how to create a custom emitter for BIRT. For this example, he creates a custom XML emitter using JaxB and provides instructions for creating, configuring, and deploying the emitter…
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Client-side Scripting in BIRT Reports
Often it is necessary to invoke another web based application from a BIRT report based on the data that is available in a table. This report demonstrates the use of the BIRT report text item in order to accomplish this goal. It includes some Javascript code in the table header. In the detail row of the table, HTML forms is…
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Web 2.0 and BIRT
<p><font size="3" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Building web 2.0 style functionality into your BIRT report may be easier than you think. Web 2.0 requires client side javascript code, and interaction with the actual report elements after the report is generated. BIRT provides a very easy to use…
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Standalone Chart Engine and Builder Examples
The Chart Builder and Chart Engine can be used outside reports to create and render and charts. There are three applications in the attached examples:<br /> <br /> - Render a Chart in a web application. It also demonstrates the usage of style you can apply to the chart, and gives you an idea how to easily integrates charts…
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Simple Design Engine API Example
<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This is a simple example showing how to create a report design from scratch entirely from the API. This example was created for BIRT 2.1.1</span></span></p> <div class=\"xoopsCode\" style=\"border: 1px…
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Creating a Waterfall chart in BIRT
Waterfall charts are a special type of floating column charts. A typical waterfall chart shows how an initial value is increased and decreased by a series of intermediate values, leading to a final value.<br /> <br /> This example shows:<br /> <br /> - how you can prepare the data to be displayed in a bar chart that will…