Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

The Birt component is disabled by default in all branches (including trunk) since 18.12.06 because of CVE-2022-25371, please check !

BIRT

With a direct connection to the database

This will allow a simple way to display and generate reports, with a direct rendering based on the data 

BIRT Web Viewer

Installation

OFBiz framework allow a developer/user to use BIRT Web Viewer to render a report by copying The "webcontent" directory from under the "birt-runtime-x_x_x/WebViewerExample" directory and paste has been integrated into OFBiz birt component's webapp directory directory ($OFBIZ_HOME/specialpurpose/birt/webapp/birt).
This allows to use the BIRT Web Viewer to render a report.

Currently OFBIz integrates the version 3.4.2 of the BIRT runtime. For future reference, the BIRT runtime is available to download here.

 

After installation is finished you You can test BIRT Web Viewer by running example reports by using these URLs.

...

...

 

Advantages

...

  1. From an user point of view, BIRT Web Viewer provides many options to play over the report:
    1. Showing table of content
    2. Changing report's parameters over AJAX dialog
    3. Exporting data by selecting required columns
    4. Exporting report with many options
    5. Printing report
    6. AJAX pagination

...

  1. A developer

...

  1. can test

...

  1. a report s/he is working on by just specify report's path on the address bar

...

  1. . No needs to create request map, view map and screen for testing.
    For testing,

...

  1. the AJAX dialog can be used to change values of parameters

...

  1. , no needs to wait the whole page reloaded every time

...

  1. the parameter's values are changed.