BIRT Exchange - DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/ Code, report designs, helpful tips, tutorials, and more. webmaster@birtexchange.com. webmaster@birtexchange.com. XOOPS 2.0.16 / RSSFit 1.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:03:04 -0800 DashBIRT 1.0 This DashBIRT demo contains a sample jsp page, which renders the following charts, built with the RCP Report Designer 2.5.1:

- top selling models (pie chart),
- sales by customer (bar chart).

Interactivity on click of each slice of the top selling models pie chart has been enabled to fire the changeProduct client-side event, providing the product name as an argument.

The sales by customer bar chart has been configured to subscribe to this event.


This initial release of DashBIRT does contain source code as this is only a sample version. Please feel free to run this project directly in Eclipse IDE, by creating a java project, and adding the required platform and libraries as described in the included readme file.


Please note that the SVG interactivity does not seem to be supported in Firefox, so please test this with an IE browser.


Please let us know what your impressions are by sending your suggestions/comments/improvements to DashBIRT thread

]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:29:11 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1154-dashbirt-1-0/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1154-dashbirt-1-0/?WT.mc_id=10019 Designing a Master/Detail Report with BIRT test1232

]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:51:26 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1155-designing-a-master-detail-report-with-birt/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1155-designing-a-master-detail-report-with-birt/?WT.mc_id=10019 Java client for the IDAPI The IDAPI is Actuate's web services API to iServer Express. It is a powerful API that includes all operations that can be done via iPortal and Management Console.


Apache Axis generates a client for the IDAPI from the web services descriptions (WSDL). However, it can be tedious to use this client directly as it requires lots of plumbing to string together the low-level structures that Axis generates.


The attached client wrapps the Axis client to provide semantic level operations. Tasks that might take dozens of lines of code when using the Axis client directly take just a few lines with the client wrapper.


The client wrapper is fully described in the Wiki article.

]]> Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:51:07 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/455-java-client-for-the-idapi/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/455-java-client-for-the-idapi/?WT.mc_id=10019 BIRT 2.5 Integration Webinar The recording is availble at Eclipse Live:


http://live.eclipse.org/node/856

]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:47:34 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1145-birt-2-5-integration-webinar/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1145-birt-2-5-integration-webinar/?WT.mc_id=10019 BIRT: Get Access to Chart Element and Modify Properties from ReportRunnable in BIRT 2.5 This example shows how to access a Chart type using the IReportRunnable object instead of opening with the Design Engine API, modify some properties, and run the report. This is useful if you want to do some quick modifications to a chart programmaticly.

]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:57:47 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1144-birt-get-access-to-chart-element-and-modify-properties-from-reportrunnable-in-birt-2-5/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports/1144-birt-get-access-to-chart-element-and-modify-properties-from-reportrunnable-in-birt-2-5/?WT.mc_id=10019 BIRT best practice Table of Contents:


1. Introduction: 


2. Installing BIRT              


4. Birt WEB Viewer              


4.1 Installing BIRT Web Viewer              


4.2 Short Guide              


5. Automatic generation of BIRT reports              


6.1Potential errors:              


7. Integration of HTML/JavaScript into the Report Layout: 


7.1 How to do it              


7.2 Tag              


8. HTML/JS and Property Binding   


8.1 Use Case              


9. Scripting              


9.1 Example:              


9.2 Highlighting with Scripts:              


9.3 Visibility with scripts:              


10. BIRT internal logging:              


11. BIRT localization:              


12. Google Maps Integration for BIRT:              


13. BIRT Scripted DataSet              


14. BIRT – Work with Parameters programmatically              


15. Information sources:              


15.1 Useful websites for specific topics:      


 

]]> Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:19:37 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1142-birt-best-practice/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1142-birt-best-practice/?WT.mc_id=10019 SEAM and JSAPI This example SEAM project includes Actuate's JSAPI to run and view a report.  The parameter for the report is retrieved from a SEAM component.  In addition SEAM remoting is used to swap the report being rendered.  This example was tested with JBoss AS 5.1.0 and SEAM 2.2.0.  extract the example into the SEAM jboss-seam-2.2.0.GA\examples\remoting directory and see the readme for building and deploying it


More info is available here:


http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-acutates-jsapi-with-jboss-seam.html

]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:46:13 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1143-seam-and-jsapi/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1143-seam-and-jsapi/?WT.mc_id=10019 Simple Real Time Report The attached example contains two files:


 



  1. A very simple example of a real time report using a real time flash chart

  2. A sample servlet that feeds the real time flash chart data.


 


To make this example work place the attached war in (depending on your specific installation) C:\Program Files\Actuate10\iPortal\webapps.


The real time flash chart in the design then calls a servlet in the chart file to get data. This is done via a Flash Variable named 'dataXML'. For more information on the syntax of this variable look here: http://www.fusioncharts.com/widgets/docs/


The real time flash chart expects the data in a specific format and the servlet generates random data in that specific format. 


 



Once the war file is deployed , you can do the following:




 



  1.  Hit the servlet with no parameters:  http://localhost:8700/RandomDataGeneration/servlet/GenerateRandomIntegerSet This will produce a string of three data points with a low of zero and a high of 10.  Defaults for the data point count, low and high are in web.xml.  You can set the defaults there and not even worry about keeping them in your URL if you like.

  2.  Hit the servlet with parameters:  http://localhost:8700/RandomDataGeneration/servlet/GenerateRandomIntegerSet?high=50&low=20&pointCount=10 This give you a string like this: "&label=12:00:00&value=47|27|31|29|47|24|23|44|49|23". Note it is very easy to change the data for this sample by editing the Flash Variable 'dataXML' in the report. Look for a string similar to the above URL and change the high, low, and pointCount to your needs. You might also need to change/add to the datasets section depending on your needs.

  3. Use the HTML form in the web app to do some playing around/testing:  http://localhost:8700/RandomDataGeneration/

  4. There is another servlet for decimal numbers. The url should look like this: http://localhost:8700/RandomDataGeneration/servlet/GenerateRandomFloatSet?precisionMask=0.000000. Setting precisionMask to anything used by the DecimalFormat class will work.  Default is to return precision of two decimal places.  The URL above will return 5, like this: &label=10:49:46&value=10.770877|6.561430|7.647936


 




 Thank you very much to Brian Hanley who built the servlets for me!



 


 

]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:07:56 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1141-simple-real-time-report/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1141-simple-real-time-report/?WT.mc_id=10019 Single Page Drill Down with Collapsible Tables This report uses multiple datasets to create a drill down report completely contained within one report design file.  The subreports are collapsible by clicking on the report headers to show/hide the tables.  There is also a navigation button to rerun the report selecting new parameters. 

]]> Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:54:23 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1132-single-page-drill-down-with-collapsible-tables/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1132-single-page-drill-down-with-collapsible-tables/?WT.mc_id=10019 Nested Web Serices Example Simple BIRT report design example showing how to pass information returned from one web service to another nested web service.  One way uses nested tables with Parameter Binding and another way stores a value in a parameter for use later.

]]> Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:08:04 -0800 http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1131-nested-web-serices-example/?WT.mc_id=10019 DevShare http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1131-nested-web-serices-example/?WT.mc_id=10019