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BIRT Chart as Sub Report
The Report example demonstrates the ability to link a stock chart as a child of a parent table. The parent table groups stock price information by month. For each month a chart is then displayed graphically depicting the performance of the stock price. This example was built with BIRT 1.0.1 …
BIRT Charting Example
Charting is an integral part of data summarization and analysis. BIRT provides an excellent package for charting, allowing diverse chart types such as bar charts, pie charts, line charts, scatter charts, and stock charts. Each chart type is also very customizable, offering a wide range of features to better represent data.…
BIRT Report Grouping
This example demonstrates building a grouped report in BIRT. The example report shows a list of customers and groups these by country. Key BIRT features that are covered in this demonstration are grouping, page breaks, table of contents, and aggregating data per group or as a total.
BIRT Highlighting and Conditional Formatting
This example demonstrates how to add highlighting and conditional formatting to a BIRT report. A Products list report is developed that displays all company products. The example report uses alternating row colors and highlights rows that represent a product that is low in quantity. This report also illustrates adding a…
BIRT Parallel Reports
This example demonstrates how to build a report with parallel sections. It also illustrates using table filters to cull the data displayed. The report uses a grid element to layout two columns. In each column a set of nested tables are added to retrieve employee information and group by position hierarchy. The tables are…
BIRT Sub Reports
This example demonstrates building a report that uses nested tables. The query that is bound to the inner table is parameterized to return order details for a given order number in the outer table. This example also illustrates referencing outer table columns within a nested table. This allows BIRT reports to be designed…
BIRT Drill to Details example
This example demonstrates a master-detail report. The master report list orders and allows the report user to click on a particular order number to drill into a detail report for the selected order. This style of detail reporting increases performance instead of displaying on data that the user may not need. This example…
Periodically Reload BIRT Report
This blog entry by Jason Weathersby shows a report that makes use of the script tag within a Text element. The report executes every 10 seconds and alters what is rendered based on some check boxes within the…
Interview at Java One on BIRT
Link to SYS-CON TV interview about BIRT at 2005 Java One between Bill Dudney and Mark Coggins. Provides an overview of what BIRT is with a focus on how the BIRT designer is different than the typical "banded" report writer.http://www.sys-con.tv/read/109190.htm
BIRT Sales by Product Report
Using the "Classic Models Inc." sample database, this example report illustrates building a static crosstab report using the BIRT Total function. The report presents annual sales revenue by quarter for each of the product lines that Classic Models Inc currently sells. Totals are aggregated across horizontal and vertical…
BIRT Top Customers Report
A report against the "Classic Models Inc." sample database making use of the top n and top percent filter capabilities, the report shows a bar chart with the top N customers by revenue, followed by a listing of the top M% customers by revenue sorted by customer name. This requires multiple passes over the data, but it is…
BIRT Top Selling Products Report
Using the "Classic Models Inc." sample database, displays a pie chart showing revenue by product line. Lists the top selling products, sorted by revenue. Demonstrates use of a chart and sorting a result set. Also shows image inclusion and use of grid and tables to organize report content. Finally, the report makes use of…
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…
Installing BIRT in JBoss RS
A link to a JBoss Wiki page describing how to install BIRT with JBoss RS for both runtime and Maven usage (in case you want to build and/or extend the Jboss RS BIRT engine). Includes a bash script for copying the BIRT…
BIRT Design Engine API (DE API)
Link to an excerpt from the book <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://safari.oreilly.com/0321443853'>Integrating and Extending BIRT</a> on the EDJ web site describing how to use the BIRT Design Engine API (DE API) to modify an existing report…
Hiding a BIRT Report Table
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…
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…
Tribix - Extended Emitters for BIRT
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…
Scripted Data Source for Web Services
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.http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/10/birt-scripted-data-source-to-call-web.html
Calling the BIRT Report Engine API
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,…
BIRT Tips for Java Developers
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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