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BIRT

With a direct connection to the database

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You can test BIRT Web Viewer by running example reports by using these URLs.

• http://demo-trunk-.ofbiz.apache.org/birt/frameset?__report=component://birt/webapp/birt/report/example.rptdesign
• http://demo-trunk-.ofbiz.apache.org/birt/frameset?__report=component://birt/webapp/birt/report/chart.rptdesign

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
2. A developer can test a report s/he is working on by just specify report's path on the address bar. No needs to create request map, view map and screen for testing.
   For testing, the AJAX dialog can be used to change values of parameters, no needs to wait the whole page reloaded every time the parameter's values are changed.