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| <p class="head">BIRT Overview</p> |
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| <p class="subhead">BIRT Report Designer</p> |
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| <h1>Report Designer</h1> |
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| Application development with BIRT starts with the report designer. This |
| Eclipse-based plugin offers a variety of tools to build reports quickly. |
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| <dt>Data Explorer |
| <dd>Organizes your data sources (connections) and data sets (queries). The data |
| set editor allows you to test your data set to ensure the report receives the |
| correct data. |
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| <dt>Layout View |
| <dd>WYSIWYG editor that provides drag & drop |
| creation of the presentation portion of your report. Includes a palette of |
| standard report items. |
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| <dt>Property Editor |
| <dd>Presents the most commonly used properties in a convenient format that makes |
| editing quick and easy. BIRT also integrates with the standard Eclipse property |
| view to provide a detailed listing of all properties for an item. |
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| <dt>Report Preview |
| <dd>You can test your report at any time with real data. The preview is a window |
| directly within Eclipse. |
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| <dt>Script Editor |
| <dd>Scripting adds business logic to reports during data access, during report |
| generation, or during viewing. The code editor provides standard Eclipse features |
| for editing your scripts: syntax coloring, auto-complete and more. BIRT expressions |
| are really just simple scripts, and an expression builder makes it easy to build |
| expressions. |
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| <dt>Outline |
| <dd>BIRT reports are organized as a tree structure with the overall report as the |
| root, and separate categories for styles, report content, data sources, data sets, |
| report parameters and more. The Outline view provides a compact overview of your |
| entire report structure. |
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| <dt>Cheat Sheets |
| <dd>Learning a new tool is always a challenge, but Eclipse offers an innovative |
| solution: cheat sheets. These are short bits of documentation that walk you |
| through new tasks. |
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| <dt>Library Explorer |
| <dd>BIRT allows the reuse of report objects, such as tables, data sources and styles. |
| Objects created for reuse are stored in a library file. |
| To browse the contents of report libraries BIRT supplies a Library Explorer view.. |
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