BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting电子书

BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

Table of Contents

BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

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 program

Building BIRT from source

Summary

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

Report Designer

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

4. Visual Report Items

Labels

Images

Text and Dynamic Text

Grid

Aggregation

Summary

5. Working with Data

BIRT data capabilities

Understanding 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

6. Report Parameters

Why parameterize reports?

Dataset 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

Setting default parameter values

Summary

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 libraries

Master Pages

Summary

8. Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns

Pie chart

Pie chart with explosions

Pie charts—working with percentages

Gauge chart

Bar chart

Summary

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

Chart events and the bookmark property for interactivity

Multiselecting parameters and binding them to a dataset through Property Binding

Using the MultiSelect parameter in an Event Handler

Using the Innovent Custom Script Libraries for query binding

More scripting examples

Summary

10. Deployment

BIRT Viewer

Installing reports into the Web Viewer

Accessing reports in the Web Viewer

Command line tools

Report Engine API

Outputing to different formats

Summary

Index