| |
| |
| Foreword | |
| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| |
| Installing BIRT | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introducing BIRT Report Designers | |
| |
| |
| Understanding BIRT components | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Eclipse BIRT packages | |
| |
| |
| About types of BIRT builds | |
| |
| |
| |
| Installing a BIRT Report Designer | |
| |
| |
| Installing BIRT Report Designer Full Eclipse Install | |
| |
| |
| Installing BIRT RCP Report Designer | |
| |
| |
| Troubleshooting installation problems | |
| |
| |
| Installing a language pack | |
| |
| |
| Updating a BIRT Report Designer installation | |
| |
| |
| Updating BIRT RCP Report Designer installation | |
| |
| |
| |
| Getting Started | |
| |
| |
| |
| Learning the Basics | |
| |
| |
| About BIRT reports | |
| |
| |
| Overview of the report design process | |
| |
| |
| About the report design environment | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 1: Building a simple listing report | |
| |
| |
| About report files and supported formats | |
| |
| |
| Viewing sample reports | |
| |
| |
| |
| Planning Your Report | |
| |
| |
| Identifying the content of the report | |
| |
| |
| Determining how the report will be viewed | |
| |
| |
| Considering international reporting requirements | |
| |
| |
| Deciding the layout and format of the report | |
| |
| |
| Drawing a mock-up | |
| |
| |
| Considering reuse of report components | |
| |
| |
| Managing report design resources | |
| |
| |
| Deciding how the report will be deployed | |
| |
| |
| |
| Accessing and Binding Data | |
| |
| |
| |
| Connecting to a Data Source | |
| |
| |
| About BIRT data sources | |
| |
| |
| Connecting to a database using JDBC | |
| |
| |
| Connecting to a text file | |
| |
| |
| Connecting to an XML file | |
| |
| |
| Connecting to a web service | |
| |
| |
| Creating reusable data sources | |
| |
| |
| Setting connection properties when a report runs | |
| |
| |
| Troubleshooting data source problems | |
| |
| |
| |
| Retrieving Data | |
| |
| |
| About data sets | |
| |
| |
| Selecting data | |
| |
| |
| Viewing and changing output columns | |
| |
| |
| Adding a computed field to a data set | |
| |
| |
| Joining data sets | |
| |
| |
| Verifying the data returned by a data set | |
| |
| |
| Specifying the data to retrieve at run time | |
| |
| |
| |
| Binding Data | |
| |
| |
| Understanding column bindings | |
| |
| |
| Creating column bindings | |
| |
| |
| Editing and deleting column bindings | |
| |
| |
| Copying data elements | |
| |
| |
| More about column-binding expressions | |
| |
| |
| |
| Designing Reports | |
| |
| |
| |
| Laying Out a Report | |
| |
| |
| Understanding the layout model | |
| |
| |
| Creating the sections of a report | |
| |
| |
| Placing report elements | |
| |
| |
| |
| Displaying Text | |
| |
| |
| Types of textual elements | |
| |
| |
| Deciding which textual element to use | |
| |
| |
| Using a dynamic text element | |
| |
| |
| Using a label element | |
| |
| |
| Using a text element | |
| |
| |
| Displaying text from right to left | |
| |
| |
| |
| Formatting Report Content | |
| |
| |
| Formatting data | |
| |
| |
| Formatting with styles | |
| |
| |
| Formatting data based on conditions | |
| |
| |
| Alternating row colors in a table | |
| |
| |
| Specifying alignment of content in a table or grid | |
| |
| |
| Adjusting the spacing of content in a report | |
| |
| |
| Specifying auto-expand layout for HTML output | |
| |
| |
| Displaying data values in one row | |
| |
| |
| Displaying content across multiple columns | |
| |
| |
| Specifying alternate values for display | |
| |
| |
| Hiding elements based on conditions | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sorting and Grouping Data | |
| |
| |
| Sorting data | |
| |
| |
| Grouping | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 2: Grouping report data | |
| |
| |
| |
| Aggregating Data | |
| |
| |
| Types of aggregate calculations | |
| |
| |
| Placing aggregate data | |
| |
| |
| Creating an aggregation | |
| |
| |
| Filtering aggregate data | |
| |
| |
| Calculating percentages | |
| |
| |
| Creating a summary report | |
| |
| |
| |
| Writing Expressions | |
| |
| |
| Basic concepts | |
| |
| |
| Using the expression builder | |
| |
| |
| Manipulating numeric data | |
| |
| |
| Manipulating string data | |
| |
| |
| Manipulating date-and-time data | |
| |
| |
| Using Boolean expressions | |
| |
| |
| |
| Filtering Data | |
| |
| |
| Filtering opportunities | |
| |
| |
| Specifying conditions on row retrieval | |
| |
| |
| Filtering data after row retrieval | |
| |
| |
| |
| Enabling the User to Filter Data | |
| |
| |
| About report parameters | |
| |
| |
| Planning to use report parameters | |
| |
| |
| User filtering options | |
| |
| |
| Enabling user filtering at query run time | |
| |
| |
| Enabling user filtering after data retrieval | |
| |
| |
| Designing the presentation of report parameters | |
| |
| |
| Testing the report parameters | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 3: Creating and using report parameters | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building a Report That Contains Subreports | |
| |
| |
| Creating the report structure | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 4: Building a report containing side-by-side subreports | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using a Chart | |
| |
| |
| Surveying the types of charts | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 5: Creating a stand-alone chart | |
| |
| |
| Exploring the chart builder | |
| |
| |
| Using a chart in a table | |
| |
| |
| |
| Displaying Data in Charts | |
| |
| |
| Linking data to a chart | |
| |
| |
| Understanding the axes of a chart | |
| |
| |
| Grouping and sorting category data | |
| |
| |
| Grouping optional Y value data | |
| |
| |
| Using multiple y-axes | |
| |
| |
| Transposing chart axes | |
| |
| |
| Filtering data | |
| |
| |
| Changing default report parameters | |
| |
| |
| Creating data bindings | |
| |
| |
| Previewing data and chart | |
| |
| |
| Creating a combination chart | |
| |
| |
| Defining a meter chart | |
| |
| |
| |
| Laying Out and Formatting a Chart | |
| |
| |
| Overview of formatting | |
| |
| |
| Formatting specific types of charts | |
| |
| |
| Setting chart area format attributes | |
| |
| |
| Formatting the chart legend, plot, and title | |
| |
| |
| Formatting axis titles, markers, lines, and labels | |
| |
| |
| Formatting a series | |
| |
| |
| |
| Presenting Data in a Cross Tab | |
| |
| |
| Tutorial 6: Creating a cross tab | |
| |
| |
| Setting up data for a cross tab | |
| |
| |
| Building a cross tab | |
| |
| |
| Displaying empty rows and columns | |
| |
| |
| Displaying user-defined values in row and column headings | |
| |
| |
| Sorting cross tab data | |
| |
| |
| Limiting the amount of data the cross tab displays | |
| |
| |
| |
| Presenting Different Views of the Same Data | |
| |
| |
| Ways to share data | |
| |
| |
| Building a dashboard report | |
| |
| |
| |
| Enhancing Reports | |
| |
| |
| |
| Designing a Multipage Report | |
| |
| |
| Planning the page layout | |
| |
| |
| Controlling pagination | |
| |
| |
| Customizing the master page | |
| |
| |
| Using multiple master pages | |
| |
| |
| |
| Adding Interactive Viewing Features | |
| |
| |
| Creating hyperlinks | |
| |
| |
| Creating a table of contents | |
| |
| |
| Adding interactive chart features | |
| |
| |
| Adding interactive elements to an HTML report | |
| |
| |
| Identifying report elements for data export | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building a Shared Development Framework | |
| |
| |
| Sharing report elements using a library | |
| |
| |
| Designing libraries for a shared environment | |
| |
| |
| Using a library | |
| |
| |
| Sharing a report layout as a template | |
| |
| |
| |
| Localizing Text | |
| |
| |
| Overview of the localization process | |
| |
| |
| Assigning a resource file to a report | |
| |
| |
| Assigning resource keys | |
| |
| |
| Editing a resource file | |
| |
| |
| Previewing a report in different locales | |
| |
| |
| Glossary | |
| |
| |
| Index | |