About BIRT reports

About BIRT reports

A BIRT report is a structured document that displays data from an external

information system, such as a database or application. Data in the report is

organized and formatted so that it is meaningful and useful to the person

who reads the report. A BIRT report is not a document that you type, like an

essay or research paper, although you could use BIRT Report Designer to

create such documents.

Using BIRT Report Designer, you can create operational reports, such as a bill

of materials, a purchase order, or an invoice. You can also create reports that

provide real-time information about business performance, such as the

number of calls handled by your customer service organization, the number

of problems handled, categorized by levels of complexity, and the number of

repeat calls made by the same customer. You can use BIRT to create clientfacing

reports, such as account statements and transaction details. Any time

that you need to gather, analyze, summarize, and present data from an

information system, a report is the solution.

Installing BIRT

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• Eclipse Platform 3.3.1
• Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.5.1
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.3.1
• Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.3.1
• Web Tools Platform (WTP) 2.0.1
• Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.5

4 From BIRT Downloads—Latest Releases, choose 2_2_1.

BIRT Downloads for build 2.2.1 appears.

5 On BIRT Downloads for build 2.2.1, perform one of the following tasks:

■ If you are using Windows, choose the following archive file in Report

Designer Full Eclipse Install:

birt-report-designer-all-in-one-2_2_1.zip

■ If you are using Linux, choose the following archive file in Report

Designer Full Eclipse Install for Linux:

birt-report-designer-all-in-one-linux-gtk-2_2_1.tar.gz

Eclipse downloads appears. This page shows all the sites that provide this

archive file.

6 Choose the download site that is closest to your location.

The BIRT Report Designer all-in-one archive file downloads to your system.

7 Extract the archive file to a hard drive location that you specify.

The extraction creates a directory named eclipse at the location that you specify.

To test the BIRT Report Designer installation, start Eclipse, then start BIRT

Report Designer as described in the following procedure. BIRT Report

Designer is a perspective within Eclipse.

How to test the BIRT Report Designer installation

1 Start Eclipse.

2 From the Eclipse window menu, choose Open Perspective➛Report

Design. If Report Design does not appear in the Open Perspective

window, choose Other. A list of perspectives appears. Choose Report Design.

Eclipse displays the BIRT Report Designer perspective.

วันนี้ได้ศึกษา BIRT Report เรื่อง...

1. Create a new project

2. Create a new Report

3. Build a data source

4. Build a data set

5. Insert table,Grid

6. Sort the data : String,number

7. Format the report

8. Create a report title