Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Introduction to Business Intelligence
• The Current State of the BI Market
• The Need for Open-Source Reporting
• What is BIRT
• The Origins of BIRT
• Features of BIRT
• Eclipse Framework
• BIRT Distributions
• Why BIRT?
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Installing BIRT
• Requirements
• Where Do I Get BIRT?
• Installing BIRT from the All-in-One Installation
• Installing BIRT All-In-One under Linux
• Installing iText for PDF Support
• Installation of BIRT through the Eclipse Plug-in Update Program
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The BIRT Environment and Your First Report
• A Basic Scenario
• The BIRT Perspective
• The BIRT Workbench
• The Navigator
• The Outline
• The Palette
• The Data Explorer
• Property Editor
• Report Designer
• Setting up a Simple Project
• Creating a Simple Report
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Visual Report Components
• Adding Labels
• Adding Images
• Using Text and Dynamic Text
• Adding Grids
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Working with Data
• BIRT Data Capabilities
• Understanding the Data Components of BIRT
• The Data Source
• The JDBC Data Source
• Data Sets
• Data Set for Flat Files
• Tables
• Creating Tables Using Drag and Drop
• Creating Tables Manually
• Groups
• Lists
• Aggregation
• Table of Contents
• Crosstab
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Report Parameters
• Why Parameterize Reports?
• Data Set Parameters and Report Parameters
• Getting Input from the User
• Creating Parameter Binding the Easy Way
• Dynamic Report Parameters and Filters
• Cascading Parameters
• Parameter Grouping and Reports with Multiple Parameters
• 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 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 Libraries
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Styles, Themes, and Templates
• Style Sheets
• Custom Style Sheets
• Editing Style Sheets
• Alternating Row Colors Using Highlights
• Creating Themes
• Using External CSS Style Sheets
• Importing CSS Files
• Using CSS as a Resource
• Templates
• Building a Report from a Template
• Creating a Template
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drill-Downs
• Pie Chart
• Modifying Chart Properties
• Using Percentages
• Gauge Chart
• Bar Chart
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Scripting and Event Handling
• Types of Scripting
• Expressions
• Using Expressions in Data Elements
• Calling Java Objects in Expressions
• Event Handling
• Contexts
• Adding Elements to Reports
• Removing Elements from a Report
• Adding Sorting Conditions
• Scripted Data Source
• Using Java Objects as Event Handlers
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Deployment
• BIRT Viewer
• Installing Reports into the Web Viewer
• Accessing Reports in the Web Viewer
• Command-Line Tools
• Report Engine API
• Outputting to Different Formats
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Practical Example— Building Reports for Bugzilla
• The Environment
• Requirements
• Create the Libraries
• First Report—Bug Detail Report
• Bug Status
• Developer Issues Reports
• Summary
• Conclusion

• Index