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BIRT Designer Feedback Needed
Your feedback is important and is needed to help guide the future of the BIRT Designers. Please select one of the links below to take a 10 minute survey on one of the BIRT Designers.<br /> <br /> <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fgNFTIeNa9LGYZVkbaWyCQ_3d_3d'>Eclipse BIRT Designer…
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Webinar on BIRT Forum topics
Next Friday (June 19th) there is a webinar related to these forums so I thought it was appropriate to announce it here.<br /> <br /> Michael Williams (<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/userinfo.php?uname=mwilliams'>mwilliams</a>) will cover some of the BIRT lessons and tips he has learned while working…
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Using BIRT and Actuate with IBM Rational ClearQuest
<p>This recorded demo shows using the BIRT Report Designer with the IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1 Eclipse client. </p> <p>The recording is indexed and contains:</p> * Overview of the BIRT Report Designer within the ClearQuest client * Actuate BIRT Designer with Flash charts and ClearQuest data * Scheduling and Administering…
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Change BIRT Page Orientation at runtime
<p>Helpful blog post from Scott Rosenbaum with tips on changing the page orientation from portrait to landscape using script and based on the report output.</p>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/change-page-layout.html
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Getting Started with BIRT - DZone RefCardz
<p><img style=""float: left;"" title=""BIRT RefCard"" src=""/uploads/wordpress/2009/04/15/9486.png"" alt=""BIRT RefCard"" width=""206"" height=""266"" /></p> <p>Link to a developer reference card on BIRT that was published as part of the DZone RefCardz series. This card covers the basics from a developer’s perspective of…
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Using the CSV emitter with BIRT 2.3.0
<p>Detailed instructions and screenshots for integrating a CSV emitter plug-in with BIRT 2.3.0.</p>http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/blog/10/entry-46-using-csv-emitter-with-birt-2-3-0/
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Suppress Duplicates in BIRT Table
There is a somewhat hidded, yet valuable, feature in BIRT that allows you to automatically supress duplicate values in a BIRT Table. To turn this feature on, select an entire column by selecting it's header, then select the General tab in the Property Editor, and place a checkbox by Suppress Duplicates. Download the…
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BIRT with Maven
<p>Steps created by Eyal Golan showing how they automated their BIRT/Wicket application assembly.</p>http://eclipse.dzone.com/tips/birt-maven
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BIRT Multi-Select Parameters the Safe and Easy Way
<p><span style=""font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""><span style=""font-size: x-small;""> <p><strong>When</strong>: April 17th 2009, 9:00 AM Pacific <br /><strong>Who</strong>: Scott Rosenbaum, Innovent Solutions<br /><br />Parameters are often used to constrain reports to a specified range of…
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Deploying BIRT Within Applications
<p><span style=""font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""><span style=""font-size: x-small;""><strong>When</strong>: March 30th 2009, 9:00 AM Pacific <br /><strong>Who</strong>: Jason Weathersby, BIRT Evangelist, Actuate <br /><br /> <p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""background: white; margin: 0in 0in…
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BIRT Multiple Values for a Parameter
<p>Blog post from Scott Rosembaum showing how to use the ScriptFunction extension point to create a one-size-fits-all multi-value parameter selection tool.</p>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/birt-multi-select-statements.html
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BIRT Dynamic Number Formatting
<p>If you have a number format that changes for each row in your report this approach keeps the Data item numeric so it can be rendered to a spreadsheet and manipulated as a number.</p> <p>In the OnRender event for the Data element add a script to modify the data format, i.e.:</p> <pre>var currency =…
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Planning your BIRT Report
<p>Sample chapter from the second edition of the book, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting. This chapter covers planning your report design and deployment tasks</p>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1245124
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How to Integrate Eclipse Birt with Hibernate
<p>Helpful blog post and example code showing how to use Hibernate data within a BIRT report.</p>http://yekmer.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-integrate-eclipse-birt-with.html
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Using Java to Write a BIRT Event Handler
<p>Blog post showing the steps to create a Java event handler for BIRT inside the Eclipse IDE</p>http://jag-tech.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-java-to-write-event-handler.html
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BIRT: Placing Java Classes for use with JavaScript
<p>Blog post that answers the question, "Where do I have to put my classes in order to access them by JavaScript?"</p>http://jag-tech.blogspot.com/2008/09/where-do-i-have-to-put-my-classes-in.html
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BIRT automatic odd even rows highlighting using style
<p>Blog post showing how to add alternating row colors for a BIRT table using a highlighting rule.</p>http://randomproblems.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/birt-automatic-odd-even-rows-highlighting-using-style/
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BIRT Connection Pooling
<p>Helpful blog post from Jason Weathersby showing how to add a Connection object to BIRT's application context object.</p>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/birt-connection-pooling-continued-again.html
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Getting BIRT Source Code
<p>Blog post from Scott Rosenbaum giving a few instructions for getting the BIRT source code.</p>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/getting-birt-source.html
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BIRT Grouped Chart Example
This is a simple BIRT report design example that groups numeric data into seperate "buckets" (intervals of 10) for display on a bar chart. This example uses a computed column to determine which bucket each data row belongs to, and then uses the optional grouping on the chart to spit the data further by name.<br /> <br />…
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Execute BIRT Reports from Java class
Simple Java class examples showing how to use the IRunAndRenderTask, IRenderTask, and IRunTask to turn BIRT rptdesign files into an rptdocument, or out to HTML or PDF.
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BIRT: Show/Hide Component
<p>Great blog post by Cyril Balit showing step-by-step instructions for showing/hiding BIRT report elements based on a data set computed column.</p>http://www.itaware.eu/2008/10/01/birt-designer-hideshow-a-component/
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BIRT: Swap XML Data Source
Simple BIRT report example that uses a paremter to decide which XML data source to load. This example uses the property binding option of the data source.<br /> <br /> The example was last modified in BIRT 2.3.0.
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BIRT: Dynamically choose CSS File
Simple BIRT report design that uses parameters and scripting to choose which CSS style sheet to import.<br /> The work happens in the initialize() method like below: dh = reportContext.getDesignHandle(); cssh = dh.openCssStyleSheet(params["cssParam"].value); dh.addCss(cssh); <br /> This example was created with BIRT 2.3.0
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BIRT Extension Mechanism
<p>Very informative article from Eclipse Corner that introduces BIRT Extension Points. It also provides the steps needed to create a custom report item and creates a rotated text item as an example.</p>http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-BIRT-ExtensionTutorial1/index.html
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BIRT: JDBC Configuration in TCR 1.1.1
<p>Blog post showing the location to copy the JDBC drivers when using BIRT reporting through Tivoli Common Reporting v1.1.1</p>http://blog.gulfsoft.com/2008/06/jdbc-configuration-in-tcr-v111.html
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Using IN/LIKE Clause in BIRT
<p>Blog post showing the steps to create your own report that uses multiple parameters and the IN Clause to allow users to select multiple values for the report.</p>http://fahadzia.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/using-inlike-clause-in-birt/
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Embed barcodes in Birt without barcode fonts
<p>Great blog post showing how to integrate barcode images into a BIRT report using the Design Engine API.</p>http://logemannreloaded.blogspot.com/2008/08/embed-barcodes-in-birt-wo-barcode-fonts.html
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BIRT Plugin for Grails
<p>Installation and configuration steps for installing a BIRT plugin into a Grails application. The plugin provides PDF report generation, a tag library for presenting report parameters in your .gsp pages, and automatic binding of form variables to your report parameters.</p>http://grails.org/plugin/birt-report
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Using the BIRT Charting APIs
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>When</strong>: August 22nd 2008, 9:00 AM Pacific <br /><strong>Who</strong>: Jason Weathersby, BIRT Evangelist, Actuate Corporation<br /><br />This 30 minute webinar will introduce the BIRT Charting APIs…
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