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Eclipse Day China by Ray Gans If you'll be in the the Beijing area on June 29th, make sure you attend the first Eclipse Day China! Currently there are over 20 topics planned for discussion on this jam packed day of technical presentations! If you are a vendor who would like to... Read more...	Community BIRT	17 June 2013 - 10:56 AM
Creating a "Tabbed" HTML Report Design by mwilliams I responded to a forum post the other day about having a "tabbed" output so that the user could choose what section of the report they wanted to see by selecting a tab at the top of the report. To do this, you would set up a design with a grid at th... Read more...	Michael's BIRT Blog	11 June 2013 - 07:40 PM
Announcing May 2013 BIRT Exchange Contributor Leaderboard by Ray Gans I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for May 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exc... Read more...	Community BIRT	05 June 2013 - 07:38 AM
PageNumber TOC links do not work in Word,Link US Map Gadget to other Gadget Reports, Count of columns and get column names in fetched dataset and more by kclark This week in the forums there was a good question about percentile data as series labels with a pie chart. Sometimes it may be nessecary to filter the top n series because the pie chart may seem cluttered if it contains too much data. If you filter... Read more...	kclark's BIRT Blog	31 May 2013 - 01:12 PM
Colored vertical bar on one side of the report, Multiple Parameters not passed to sub report, Who is viewing my report and other topics by kclark This week I got to work on another chart formatting question. He wanted to know how to start a line chart on the y axis instead of set off to the side. To do this we can set the area format insets to make the chart look like this. You can easily... Read more...	kclark's BIRT Blog	24 May 2013 - 11:10 AM
Conditional Filters using IN clauses, print image base64 in birt report, Get size of images and other topics by kclark One of the forum posts I worked with this week was about chart formatting. The poster was wanting to know how to group their categories with an interval to show ranges of data, like in the screenshot below: You can do this from the chart editor U... Read more...	kclark's BIRT Blog	17 May 2013 - 07:17 AM
Stephen Few Student Performance Dashboard using BIRT by mblock Stephen Few is a visualization expert and the author of some books on the topic including 'Show Me the Numbers' Last year he had a competion to design a dashboard on class performance based on data he provided. The winner was announce last year ( ht... Read more...	BIRT Blocks	10 May 2013 - 11:30 AM
Announcing April 2013 BIRT Exchange Contributor Leaderboard by Ray Gans I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for April 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT E... Read more...	Community BIRT	07 May 2013 - 01:03 PM
Plug In 2 BIRT Contest - Spring 2013 Ends Soon by mwilliams There are only a few days left to get your entry in for the Plug In 2 BIRT Contest - Spring 2013. Be sure to get your entry in by 11:59pm PST on April 30th. If you're still looking to get started, take a look at the contest page. There are some id... Read more...	Michael's BIRT Blog	26 April 2013 - 08:33 AM
Sneak Peek at the Upcoming MongoDB ODA by Virgil Soon after the MongoDB noSQL-style database system started becoming popular, the BIRT community started asking for ways to get at that data. The good news for developers using BIRT, is that BIRT was designed with data source extensibility in mind. ... Read more...	BIRT Evangelist Blog	22 April 2013 - 12:59 PM

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Eclipse Day China
By Ray Gans in Community BIRT, Last activity 17 June 2013 - 10:56 AM

If you'll be in the the Beijing area on June 29th, make sure you attend the first Eclipse Day China! Currently there are over 20 topics planned for discussion on this jam packed day of technical presentations! If you... Read more...

Community BIRT has 4 Comments 160 Entries 12244229 Views
Creating a "Tabbed"...
By mwilliams in Michael's BIRT Blog, Last activity 11 June 2013 - 07:40 PM

I responded to a forum post the other day about having a "tabbed" output so that the user could choose what section of the report they wanted to see by selecting a tab at the top of the report. To do this, you would set up a design with a grid at... Read more...

Michael's BIRT Blog has 11 Comments 116 Entries 18747612 Views
PageNumber TOC links do not...
By kclark in kclark's BIRT Blog, Last activity 31 May 2013 - 01:12 PM

This week in the forums there was a good question about percentile data as series labels with a pie chart. Sometimes it may be nessecary to filter the top n series because the pie chart may seem cluttered if it contains too much data. If you... Read more...

kclark's BIRT Blog has 11 Comments 22 Entries 555702 Views
Stephen Few Student Perform...
By mblock in BIRT Blocks, Last activity 10 May 2013 - 11:30 AM

Stephen Few is a visualization expert and the author of some books on the topic including 'Show Me the Numbers' Last year he had a competion to design a dashboard on class performance based on data he provided. The winner was announce... Read more...

BIRT Blocks has 4 Comments 4 Entries 1265190 Views
Sneak Peek at the Upcoming ...
By Virgil in BIRT Evangelist Blog, Last activity 22 April 2013 - 12:59 PM

Soon after the MongoDB noSQL-style database system started becoming popular, the BIRT community started asking for ways to get at that data. The good news for developers using BIRT, is that BIRT was designed with data source extensibility in mind. ... Read more...

BIRT Evangelist Blog has 1 Comments 81 Entries 5644353 Views
10 Jaw-dropping Visualizati...
By dmelcher in dmelcher's BIRT Blog, Last activity 04 March 2013 - 03:22 PM

I recently had the honor to present at last week's Big Data for Defense and Government conference. My presentation showed 10 jaw-dropping visualizations along with other application and workflow visualizations. I'm attaching my PowerPoint... Read more...

dmelcher's BIRT Blog has 3 Comments 7 Entries 1142040 Views
Generate report with twin p...
By Mad1s0n in BIRT by the rules, Last activity 27 December 2012 - 06:14 AM

The following piece of code shows how to design a report that prints the same report on a landscape page in two different languages (english on the left, french on the right for the example). The report is run twice with a different default... Read more...

BIRT by the rules has 0 Comments 1 Entries 455501 Views
BIRT at Eclipse Demo Camp J...
By averma in BIRT Rocks!, Last activity 30 April 2013 - 08:19 AM

I was awarded a speaking slot at the Eclipse Demo Camp Juno 2012 next week on Wednesday, June 13 at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA. This is a great opportunity to network and learn about various technologies that makes Eclipse a great development... Read more...

BIRT Rocks! has 7 Comments 28 Entries 25704727 Views
Chart, Table and their dataset
By dzish in dzish's Blog, Last activity 22 March 2012 - 05:26 AM

I had strange behaviour when one DataItem in table showed result from dataset and next day there was empty space. What's the matter? The dataitem is binded with computed column in dataset which has default value empty string. And onFetch... Read more...

dzish's Blog has 0 Comments 1 Entries 885104 Views
BIRT-Talk, A collaborativel...
By Megha Nidhi Dahal in Arpan's Blog, Last activity 14 March 2013 - 08:46 AM

Hello Community, Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year 2012 in advance. I'm sure that the coming year will witness a lot of progress in BIRT. Now, as we are moving ahead year by year, BIRT also has gained immense popularity... Read more...

Arpan's Blog has 4 Comments 2 Entries 1188203 Views
Bangalore BIRT Roadshow
By rmurphy in Adventures with BIRT, Last activity 07 February 2013 - 04:38 AM

A couple of months ago I was asked if I could go to India as part of the BIRT Roadshow. For me, this was a no brainer. I love to talk about BIRT, and this was a chance for me to return to a part of India that I have visited in the past. My... Read more...

Adventures with BIRT has 2 Comments 1 Entries 1186993 Views
Final thoughts on CeBIT
By goksun in BIRT-ing Out Loud, Last activity 14 March 2013 - 08:47 AM

I had a great time at CeBIT (although it was very busy, we barely had time to breath). We had a great BIRT event on Thursday where more than 20 people showed up and I was really impressed on how the German audience was really BIRT savvy. This was... Read more...

BIRT-ing Out Loud has 5 Comments 2 Entries 16076406 Views