Contexts for items submitted by Actuate, 3/06
Use this dialog box to specify a project name for the new report project. For the project contents, you can either choose to use the default location or specify an alternate location.
Use this page to specify a parent folder and a file name for a new report project.
If you created a project for the new report, you can select it as the parent folder.
Use this page to select a blank report, one of the report templates that are provided with the copy, or a previously created report, and then click Finish.
When you highlight a report template, a preview of the report is displayed to the right.
If you select "Show Report Creation Cheat Sheet," the corresponding cheat sheet will be displayed, if one is available, when you click Finish.
Use this page to select the type of data source that you want to include in your report, then specify the name of the data source.
Use this page to specify a name for the data set, the source of the data, and the data set type.
A data set is a query that specifies the data to retrieve from the data source.
The data set type indicates the type of query. For example, if your report connects to a JDBC data source, you use a SQL SELECT statement to specify the data to retrieve.
Use this dialog box to define the attributes of a data set.
A data set is a query that specifies the data to retrieve from the data source.
This page allows you to name a new formatting style or modify an existing style for application in reports.
Select the button for Predefined Style to customize an existing style. Select the button for Custom Style to create a new style from scratch.
On the left of the page, choose a property category that you want to include in the style that you are creating. Define the property on the right of the page.
Use this dialog box to create an expression. You can type in the expression, double-click a listed element, or use a combination of these two methods.
You can also enter operators by typing them or by clicking the operator buttons.
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Use this dialog box to apply a style for to the report element that you selected in the layout editor. Use this dialog box also to define a new style; you can apply the style at this time, but you do not need to.
The left side displays the property categories. The right side displays the properties for the category you select.
Use this dialog box to create a visual grouping of parameters.
Use this page to define a link to another location
The Hyperlink property returns a standard web-style link with http: or mailto: prefix. Expression hyperlinks can include special BIRT features, but only as encoded into a URL. If the link specifies a target within the document, encode that target within the URL as defined by target document type, as in the URL, http://MyPage.com/docs/myDoc.html#myTarget.
Use the Bookmark property of a report item to create the target bookmark.
Use this dialog box to create expressions for any purpose that your report requires.
For example, you can create a computed field in your report layout, or create aggregate expressions to display summary information.
Use this dialog box to create a report parameter to allow users to filter your report. The report parameter prompts users to specify values that determine the rows to retrieve.
The data type you select does not have to match the data type of the field in the data source. Values in an orderID field, for example, could be stored as integers in the database but the report parameter associated with this field can be of decimal or string type. The data type you select for the report parameter determines the formatting options available should you choose to provide a default value or a list of values for the report parameter.
For date fields, you can select either Date Time or String. Specifying string data type provides more flexibility for the user to specify dates in a variety of formats. The user can enter, for example, 02/04/2004, 2/4/04, or Feb 4, 2004. The trade-off is that you cannot use date and time formats to change how dates are displayed should you choose to provide the user with a list of date values.
Use this dialog box to define a cascading parameter group.
A parameter group is a visual grouping of dynamic parameters. When the value of a particular parameter in the group depends on the value of another parameter, the parameter group is a cascading parameter group.
Use this dialog box to insert an image directly on the page or in any container element.
In you are inserting an linked image, select the Linked image button. Under Enter URI, specify the location of the image file. Enclose the URI in double quotation marks (" ").
In you are inserting an embedded image, select the Embedded image button, then click Add Image to select the image that you want to embed.
Typically, you insert data source images in the detail row of a table to display all the pictures stored in the data source. If you are entering an image that is stored in a data source, select the Dynamic image button, then click Binding to specify the data source.
Use this dialog box to insert a Table element.
The Table element presents data from a data set in using a tabular layout. The columns property is optional and defines the columns. The header appears at the top of the table, and on each new page. The table can contain groups. (Right-click in the table that you inserted and click Insert Group.) The footer displays totals and appears at the bottom of the table. The detail appears for every row in the data set.
Use this dialog box to edit and format Text elements.
The Text element displays a multi-line block of text defined within the report. This element can contain embedded formatting and value expressions.
The Text item allows the report developer to provide the text as part of the report design. Text can be in HTML or plain text format and can be localized. HTML text can contain placeholders for data and expressions, much like the mail merge feature of a word processing program.
Use this dialog box to define and configure groups.
Grouping data in a report can make the data easier to interpret and use. For example, you can group customer data by credit limit.
Use this dialog box to specify the data set that contains the images that you want to insert.
Use this dialog box specify the condition, or rule, for applying a particular format to the report element.
The dialog box helps you specify the If and Then parts of the rule by breaking them down to more specific parts.
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Use this page to control how the Data Set Editor displays SQL queries and previews reports.
Use this page to
Use this page to assign default names to elements of the Report Object Model (ROM).
Use this page to add or remove libraries.
A BIRT report library is a collection of report components that can be used in a report design. Report components include reusable visual report items, data sources, data sets, parameters, translations and more.
A library is a customizable, pre-defined set of rules that helps a user quickly create a report with a specific look.
A BIRT library includes both formatting information and rules that help you the developer create a report. A library is like a "skin" for a report; it takes the data, structure and layout of a report and applies formatting defined in the library to transform the report's appearance.
A library may start with a "style sheet": a set of common styles to apply to all reports within an application. The library can then add commonly-used data sources, reusable components, translated text, images and more.
Use this page to control how reports are previewed in web browsers.
To add a browser, select Custom Browser and enter the command to open it.
You can enable an SVG device renderer for the chart engine. This reference implementation (located in the org.eclipse.birt.chart.device.svg plug-in) defines basic SVG drawing primitives based on the SVG 1.1 specification.
Use this page to set up an internal application server to preview your reports.
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Use this page to specify the folder that contains your templates.