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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 "webcontent" directory from "birt-runtime-x_x_x/WebViewerExample" directory and paste into birt component's webapp directory ($OFBIZ_HOME/specialpurpose/birt/webapp/birt). BIRT runtime is available to download here.

 

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

http://localhost:8080/birt/frameset?__report=component://birt/webapp/birt/report/example.rptdesign

http://localhost:8080/birt/frameset?__report=component://birt/webapp/birt/report/chart.rptdesign

 

Advantages

For user point of view, BIRT Web Viewer provides many options to play over the report:

  • Showing table of content
  • Changing report's parameters over AJAX dialog
  • Exporting data by selecting required columns
  • Exporting report with many options
  • Printing report
  • AJAX pagination

For developer point if view, they can test the report that they are working on by just specify report's path on the address bar, don't need to create request map, view map and screen for testing. For testing, they can use AJAX dialog to change values of parameters which don't need to wait the whole page reloaded every time they change the parameter's values.

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