BIRT
Home Page for Downloads : https://archive.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/build_list.php
Birt Versions for our Clients:
Modo BIRT Verion : 4.3.1
DI BIRT version : 2.6.1
BIRT Bundle types:
BIRT Report Designer All-In-One
BIRT Report Framework
BIRT RCP Report Designer
BIRT Runtime
BIRT Charts
Basic Components of BIRT
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
Deploying BIRT>J2EE Deploy, RCP Deploy, Other
For Database Connection:
Plug-in Directory : birt-rcp-report-designer-4_3_1\plugins
Oracle Jar Files Path : org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc_4.3.1.v201308301349\Drivers\<ojdbc_6*>
# Open All-In-One or RCP Designer:
FILE>New>Project>
Create New Project.
>Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools > Report Project
Data Source: Database Connection
/ Oracle Database
My SQL DB
XML
WEB URL
Creating Data Source:
Right Click on Data Source : > New Data Source
Select the Oracle JDBC Database Connection
And pass the following parameters according to the Dabase:
Data Set: It is nothing but a SQL Query;
This query is developed based on the tables of attached schema.
Create New DataSet:
We can develop a Query in Toad or any DB tools. Also we can write in BIRT itself.
Query:
NOTE: Don't use semicolon at the end of the SQL Query.
Output Columns: It will show the columns of the select statement columns with data types and display
names of the columns
Preview results : It will show the data which the Select statement fetches
Once the dataset designed correctly then will get the select list columns when expanded the data Set(Tree
view).
Now Switch to Layout :
For designing layout. Birt provided the design pallet. Which consists of various kind of design options .
For design the layout for data, it's required report items pallet.