BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting : Create, Design, Format, And Deploy Reports With The World's Most Popular Eclipse-Based Business Intelligence And Reporting Tool

Intro -- BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting -- Table of Contents -- BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Introduction to BI -- The current state of the BI market -- The need for open source reporting -- Why BIRT? -- What is BIRT? -- The origins of BIRT -- Features of BIRT -- Eclipse framework -- BIRT distributions -- Conventions used in this book -- Summary -- 2. Installing BIRT -- BIRT prerequisites -- Software requirements -- Hardware requirements -- Where do I get BIRT? -- Installing BIRT from the All-In-One package -- Installing BIRT All-in-One under Linux -- Installation of BIRT through the Eclipse Plugin update program -- Building BIRT from source -- Summary -- 3. The BIRT Environment and First Report -- A basic scenario -- The BIRT perspective -- The BIRT workbench -- The Navigator -- The Outline -- The Palette -- The Data Explorer -- Resource Explorer -- Property Editor -- Report Designer -- Setting up a simple project -- Creating a simple report -- The hidden views -- Getting access to cheat sheets and the simple listing report tutorial within Eclipse -- Summary -- 4. Visual Report Items -- Labels -- Images -- Text and Dynamic Text -- Grid -- Aggregation -- Summary -- 5. Working with Data -- BIRT data capabilities -- Understanding the data components of BIRT -- The Data Source -- XML Data Source -- Flat file data adapter -- The JDBC Data Source -- Datasets -- Dataset for flat files -- JDBC Datasets -- Joined Dataset -- Creating data using the data store -- Tables -- Creating tables using drag and drop -- Creating tables manually -- Groups -- Lists -- Aggregations.