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Sample Salesforce opportunity management dashboards, reports and gadgets to run in your on-premise B
This installer sets up sample Salesforce opportunity management dashboards, reports and gadgets to run in your on-premise BIRT iServer. Simply unzip the package in a clean folder and run the setup.bar script from a command window, the installer creates necessary folders and uploads files to your iServer volume.<br /> <br…
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Use image gadget to show images stored in your encyclopedia volume
Assuming the image is stored in resources folder, for a default installation the URL that you will need to pull the image looks something like:<br /> <br /> http://HOSTNAME:8900/iportal/servlet/DownloadFile?name=/Resources/Image.PNG&__vp=VOLUME_NAME&userid=administrator&password=<br /> <br /> Note that you will need to…
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Limit the number of pages that can exported
<p><br /> By default this value is set to 200 pages but it can be configured through a parameter (ALLOW_EXPORT_PAGE_LIMIT) defined in web.xml. This file can be located in the following folder:<br />* BIRT Report Desinger - [BRDPro Install…
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Display files and folders in BIRT 360 dashboard gadget
Use the HTML gadget and set the URL to:<br /> <br /> http://hostname:8900/iportal/getfolderitems.do?showBanner=false&fromDashboard=true&doframe=false<br /> <br /> Replace hostname in the above url with the machine name where BIRT iServer is installed.<br /> <br /> The HTML gadgets presents the same view as that in…
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Integrating a custom data source in BusinessReport Studio
The following steps will guide you through setting up custom data source:<br /> (Note: Assuming a typical install IPORTAL_ROOT is:<br /> iServer - C:Program FilesActuate9iServerservletcontaineriportal<br /> iPortal Workgroup - C:Program FilesActuate9iPortalwebappsiportal)<br /> <br /> 1. Create a directory "MySQL" under…
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Interactive BIRT Reporting
Unzip the file in your project folder. All the examples use Classic Models data base which is included with your BIRT designer. Stock.rptdesign expect "watchlist.csv" to be in C:temp. Modify the design accordingly to change this location.<br /> <br /> Ashwini Verma
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Customizing Security in Deployment Kit
Introducing Deployment Kit security<br /> By default Deployment Kit provides a basic security mechanism from the perspective of authentication and authorization. The default authentication module uses Tomcat to manage users that have access to Deployment Kit. These users can be administered easily using Deployment Kit…
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Extending Deployment Kit to automatically enable Interactive Viewing
Copy and paste the attached javascript code before the end of < SCRIPT > tag in file:<br /> [InstallDir]iPortalwebappsiportaliportalivpageslayoutIVFramesetFragment.jsp<br /> <br /> The script uses the following parameters:<br /> __startIV - setting this to true will launch into Interactive Viewer. Any other value will not…
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Sample RSSE implementation to externalize User Registration and Authentication
If you using BIRT iServer version 11, refer to this devshare artcle<br /> <br /> By default the usernames, roles and passwords are stored inside iServer within encyclopedia volume. Using Report Server Security Extension (RSSE) you can build a soap based web application that will externalize user registration and…
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Implementing single sign-on in iServer
This article uses an example to illustrates the concept of how an external web application might implement single sign-on with iServer Information Console application. The example builds upon simple RSSE implementation as discussed in the following devshare article:<br /> <br /> Sample RSSE implementation to externalize…
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Sample iServer Activity Report
Actuate iServer creates these usage log files (usage_log_x.csv) in appropriate directory under AC_SERVER_HOME/UsageErrorlogs/ folder. If you have multiple log files you could join them into a single file and use the attached sample BIRT design to report on the data. The attached sample report assumes a data source file…
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Bring iServer volume offline through a SOAP command
The attached sample sends a SOAP request which brings down the volume. It does this by first fetching the authentication id from the server for the system administration page (not the volume). SOAP message for system administration login is different from the volume login. Then it constructs the SOAP command that brings…
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New ODA Driver for POJO Objects (Demo Pack)
POJO (Plain Old Java Objects) objects are commonly used along with infrastructure frameworks like Hibernate and Spring to create enterprise Java applications. Actuate Release 11 features a new POJO ODA driver which provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface to use POJO objects as data sources in BIRT. Report…
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Data Access Enhancements (Demo Pack)
Union of Data Sets and new Join Data Set capabilities<br /> In Actuate Release 11, BIRT developers can create a union of two or more data sets to create a data set similar to a UNION ALL construct in SQL. This union data set enables developers to distill columns from multiple data sets into one data set and makes it easier…
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Dynamic Filters (Demo Pack)
Dynamic (Ad hoc) Parameter Support<br /> A parameter enables a designer to expose a design variable whose value can be received from either a user or another program. This variable in turn is used to control the behavior of either query, formula or design item properties. Actuate 11 greatly enhances design flexibility by…
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Improved PDF Output (Demo Pack)
WYSIWYG BIRT Design Experience<br /> Actuate Release 11 delivers true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) BIRT design experience to the BIRT Designer Professional. This enhancement greatly improves the productivity and report development efficiency of the BIRT developer and hence, brings about significant cost savings…
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Live Excel Export (Demo Pack)
Actuate Release 11 features an all-new Excel emitter which can create analysis-ready "live" Excel spreadsheets. This would enable the business user t-spreadsheet. The users can also choose to export the entire BIRT design or a single item like chart, table or crosstab to Excel. This gives them the flexibility to obtain the…
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Miscellaneous Charting Enhancements (Demo Pack)
In Actuate Release 11, there are several improvements to the charting capabilities:-<br />* Improved Performance The chart viewing performance has been improved by as much as 50% by optimizing the serialization techniques and using a new PNG writer.<br /> * New Polar/Radar Chart Actuate BIRT provides an extensive set of…
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WYSIWYG Design Experience (Demo Pack)
Actuate Release 11 delivers true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) design experience to the BIRT Designer Professional. This enhancement greatly improves the productivity and report development efficiency of the BIRT developer and hence, brings about significant cost savings by lowering the development and maintenance…
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Dynamic Filters in BIRT Studio (Demo Pack)
Dynamic (Ad hoc) Parameter Support<br /> A parameter enables a designer to expose a design variable whose value can be received from either a user or another program. This variable in turn is used to control the behavior of either query, formula or design item properties. Actuate 11 greatly enhances design flexibility by…
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BIRT 360 (Demo Pack)
Actuate 11 adds a new product to its lineup with BIRT 360, a dashboard application that puts the power to createdashboards in the hands of users, freeing up IT time and resources. BIRT 360 is a browser based zero foot print application based on the popular Google Gadget framework thus enabling BIRT 360 to not only leverage…
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BIRT Data Analyzer (Demo Pack)
BIRT Data Analyzer is a zero footprint, browser-based OLAP tool created for business users. The product’s highlyintuitive analysis interface, combined with the scalable reach of BIRT technology, make it possible fororganizations to deploy analysis capability to users at all levels in the organization.<br /> <br /> This…
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BIRT Data Object (Demo Pack)
BIRT Data Objects are the foundational elements of Actuate’s in-memory processing. A BIRT Data Object is a data store where data is sourced from multiple and disparate data sources. Once sourced, the data can be modeled as one or more flat or multi-dimensional structures thus forming the basis for wide range of ad-hoc…
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Using Dynamic Parameters BIRT Studio (Demo Pack)
A parameter enables a designer to expose a design variable whose value can be received from either a user or another program. This variable in turn is used to control the behavior of either query, formula or design item properties. Actuate 11 greatly enhances design flexibility by introducing a new type of parameter called…
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Using date/time expression in a document name or version name
You can include date-time format in a file name by using keywords. For example, to generate a Sales Report using the document generation date as a part of the document name, use the following expression in the document name while scheduling the report:<br /> <br /> Sales to date {mm-dd-yy}<br /> <br /> The report if…
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Saving parameter values for reuse
Here are the steps to creating the parameter values file:<br /><br />* Login into management console.<br /> <br /> * Navigate to the BIRT report design in files and folder area.<br /> <br /> * Point to the arrow next to the design file name and choose "Create Parameter Values File"<br /> <br /> * Specify the filename,…
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Export individual report elements from BIRT report
Actuate Interactive Viewer exports not only the entire report output but also individual report elements in your BIRT report to several different formats. Here are the steps:<br />* Enable interactivity on BIRT report<br /> <br /> * Select the chart, table or crosstab that you would like to export<br /> <br /> * Click on…
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Using BIRT reportlet in dashboard
<br />* Edit the BIRT report in BIRT designer and select the report element that you would like to see the gadget.<br /> <br /> * Go to the properties tab and define the bookmark for the selected report element.<br /> <br /> * Save the design and deploy it to BIRT iServer.<br /> <br /> * Log into information console and…
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Customize RSSE to externalize user authentication in BIRT iServer
By default the usernames, roles and passwords are stored inside BIRT iServer within encyclopedia volume. Using Report Server Security Extension (RSSE) you can build a soap based web application that will externalize user registration and authentication.<br /> <br /> The following example illustrates this concept by having…
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Export report with specified format in your web application
The attached sample assumes a default installation of Actuate BIRT iServer running on a localhost. For a different setup make necessary modifications to actuate.initialize() call.
