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| <p class="head">BIRT Tutorial</p> |
| <p class="subhead">Getting Started</p> |
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| <h1>Introduction</h1> |
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| This brief tutorial walks you through building a simple report with BIRT. |
| It introduces the major UI features, and many of the BIRT reporting elements. |
| At the completion of this tutorial, you should be able to start building your |
| own reports using your own database. |
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| We'll create a simple customer listing report, with the customers grouped by |
| state and city. For each customer, we'll display a name and phone number. |
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| <h1>Install BIRT</h1> |
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| If you have not yet done so, install Eclipse, GEF, EMF and BIRT. You'll find complete |
| instructions for doing so on the |
| <a href="/birt/index.php?page=build/install.html">BIRT Install</a> page. |
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| <h1>Open BIRT</h1> |
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| BIRT is a perspective within Eclipse. To open it, use the Window item on the |
| Eclipse main menu. Choose Open Perspective, then Report Design. If report Design |
| does not appear directly in the Open Perspective window, then choose Other... A list of perspectives |
| will appear. Choose Report Design. |
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| Eclipse will switch to display the BIRT perspective. |
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| Example Report</h1> |
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| If you get stuck as you work through the tutorial, or if you want to see the |
| finished report right away, simply download it:<ul> |
| <li>Use your browser to download the report: <a href="customers.rptdesign"> |
| customers.rptdesign</a>.</li> |
| <li>Save the file into an Eclipse project directory. (See the next page if you |
| don't yet have a project.)</li> |
| <li>Your browser may store this as an XML file. If so, rename it back the the |
| name above.</li> |
| <li>Within Eclipse, select your project in the Navigator view and choose |
| Refresh from the right-click context menu.</li> |
| <li>Double-click the report to open it in the BIRT report designer.</li> |
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