business intelligence and reporting tools (birt) 2
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Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
(BIRT) 2.2
Jason Weathersby, BIRT PMC
Agenda
� Quick Overview
� Quick BIRT Demo
� 2.2 Features
� BIRT WTP Wizard Demo
� ODA Wizard Demo
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High Level BIRT Architecture
Report Designer
Report Design Engine
XMLReportDesign
HTMLPDFDOCXLSPrintPSCSV
Report Engine
PresentationServices
GenerationServices
DataTransform.Services
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ReportDocumentData
Data
CustomDesigner
1
ChartingEngine 5
Eclipse DTPODA
2
Eclipse WTP
3
ChartDesigner
5
Eclipse ReportDesigner
BIRT Introduction – The Quick Tour
� The BIRT Perspective
� Data View, Palette, Outline View, Layout, Code, Preview
� BIRT Data
� Data Sources, Data Sets, Parameters
� BIRT Layout
� Grids, Tables, Controls, Data Binding
� BIRT Code
� Expression Builders vs. Code Pages
� BIRT Preview
� HTML View, BIRT Viewer, PDF Viewer, DOC Viewer…
� Deploying BIRT
� J2EE Deploy, RCP Deploy, Other
BIRT Perspective
BIRT Perspective
•Report
•Template
•Library
BIRT Projects
•Report Project
•ODA Designer
•ODA Runtime
•New Web Project
BIRT Views
Data Explorer View
•Extensible Data Sources – Flat File, XML, Web Services, JDBC, Scripted.
•Data Sets – SQL Query, Stored Procedures, Joint Data Sets.
•Parameters – Cascaded, Dynamic, Static.
Palette View
•Extensible – Extensions provided to add new elements.
•Report Elements used in constructing a Report.
Library Explorer View
•Reusable Report Elements.
•Dynamic reference.
Outline View
•Hierarchal view of report.
•Quick Navigation.
BIRT Views Continued
Report Editor
•Layout – Report Canvas for element drag and drop.
•Master Page – Headers, Footers, Margins and Orientation. Multiple master page support.
•Script – Quick access to event handler scripts for selected report element.
•XML Source – XML for report design.
•Preview – Quick view of report HTML output.
Properties
•Gui - for common properties (ie, Localization, Style, TOC).
•Binding – Data Set container binding.
•Sorting – Sort data inside the given element.
•Groups – Quick access to add/modify groups.
•Map – Conditional Data presentation.
•Highlights – Conditional styling.
•Filter – Complex filtering of data within the container.
Example BIRT Viewer
BIRT Viewer
•AJAX Based.
•Parameter Discovery.
•J2EE Application (Application Server Deployment).
•Eclipse Plugin (RCP deployment).
•Report Engine API (Java Application Deployment).
BIRT Report Development Demo
BIRT 2.2 Feature Highlights� Eclipse 3.3 Support
� Dynamic CrossTab
� Web Services Data Source
� Better Flat File Data Source
� ODA Project Wizard
� Dynamic Reference to Connection Profile
� Word, Excel and Postscript Emitters
� More references to styles, including external CSS files
� Improved XML Editor
� Improved JavaScript Editor, with Debugging
� WTP Project Wizard
� JSP Tag library
� New Chart types
BIRT Web Project
BIRT Viewer Tag
BIRT Requestor Tag
BIRT Report Tag
BIRT ODA Project
Word Emitter – XLS, PS On the way
New Examples View
BIRT WTP Project Wizard Demo
ODA Project Wizard Demo
