BIRT 2.6 data analysis and reporting : create, design, format, and deploy reports with the world's most popular eclipse-based business intelligence and reporting tool / John Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, John.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business intelligence.

Business--Computer programs.

Business.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Open Source, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Create, Design, Format, and Deploy Reports with the world's most popular Eclipse-based Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Introduction to BI; The current state of the BI market; The need for open source reporting; Why BIRT?; What is BIRT?; The origins of BIRT; Features of BIRT; Eclipse framework; BIRT distributions; Conventions used in this book; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing BIRT; BIRT prerequisites; Software requirements; Hardware requirements; Where do I get BIRT?; Installing BIRT from the All-In-One package; Installing BIRT All-in-One under Linux

Installation of BIRT through the Eclipse Plugin update programBuilding BIRT from source; Summary; Chapter 3: The BIRT Environment and First Report; A basic scenario; The BIRT perspective; The BIRT workbench; The Navigator; The Outline; The Palette; The Data Explorer; Resource Explorer; Property Editor; Setting up a simple project; Creating a simple report; The hidden views; Getting access to cheat sheets and the simple listing report tutorial within Eclipse; Summary; Chapter 4: Visual Report Items; Labels; Images; Text and Dynamic Text; Grid; Aggregation; Summary; Chapter 5: Working with Data

BIRT data capabilitiesUnderstanding the data components of BIRT; The Data Source; XML Data Source; Flat file data adapter; The JDBC Data Source; Datasets; Dataset for flat files; JDBC Datasets; Joined Dataset; Creating data using the data store; Tables; Creating tables using drag and drop; Creating tables manually; Groups; Lists; Aggregations; Web service Data Source; Adding additional data aware components to the palette; Summary; Chapter 6: Report Parameters; Why parameterize reports?; Dataset parameters and report parameters; Getting input from the user

Creating parameter binding the easy wayDynamic Report Parameters and Filters; Cascading parameters; Parameter grouping and reports with multiple parameters; Setting default parameter values; Summary; Chapter 7: Report Projects and Libraries; Report projects; Creating new Report Projects; Importing and exporting Report Projects; Other project options; Libraries; Creating a new library; Adding components to a library; Adding a data source to a library; Adding a visual element to a library; Using components stored in a library; Updating components in the library to update reports

Adding existing components in reports to librariesMaster Pages; Summary; Chapter 8: Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns; Pie chart; Pie chart with explosions; Pie charts-working with percentages; Gauge chart; Bar chart; Summary; Chapter 9: Scripting and Event Handling; Types of Scripting; Expressions; Event Handling; Contexts; Adding elements to report; Removing elements from a report; Adding sorting conditions; Affecting behavior of report rendering based on condition through script; Scripted data source; Using Java objects as Event Handlers

How Chart Event Handling differs from other report items

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612703348

9781282703346

128270334X

9781849511674

1849511675

OCLC:

796383642