📄️ BIRT reporting
BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) is an open-source Eclipse and Java-based reporting system. Eclipse BIRT is supported by USoft using an off-the-shelf component named BIRT. Using BIRT, you can generate reports in various formats, for example//www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/
📄️ BIRT Step 1: Download and Install BIRT Software
To download and install Eclipse BIRT software on your system:
📄️ BIRT Step 2: Create a BIRT report definition file
The report definition file contains all the information required to connect to the data source, to create a data set, and and to format the data in the data set. There are three steps associated with the creation of a report definition file:
📄️ BIRT Step 3: Import and configure the BIRT off-the-shelf component
To import and configure the BIRT off-the-shelf component:
📄️ BIRT Step 4: Start the USoft Rules Service
The Rules Service is started and configured using the Rules Service project in the USoft Binder. Refer to the online help supplied with the Rules Service item for details of how to configure and start the Rules Service.
📄️ BIRT Step 5: Call the BIRT component to generate the report
To call the BIRT off-the-shelf component, and generate a report:
📄️ BIRT Step 6: Parameterisation of the BIRT report definition
BIRT obtains the data it requires data from USoft using the USoft Rules Service. The JDBC connection string to the USoft rules service contains a hostname and port number. To facilitate easy deployment of this report definition where multiple data sources are present, you can parameterize the definition to simplify configuration changes. You can create one report parameter that contains both host name and port number variables. You can then use this parameter in the connection string of each data source that points to a USoft Rules Service. To do this follow the steps below: