Working with files

Using the default display settings, files appear in the following categories:

Documents You Can View. When you choose a file from Documents You Can View, Actuate Deployment Kit opens it for viewing. For information about operations you can perform while viewing a report, see Working with Actuate BIRT Viewers.

You use Microsoft Excel to view spreadsheet reports. If a spreadsheet executable requires parameters you select them before you can view the report document.

You use BIRT Data Analyzer to view BIRT data designs and cube view files. For information about operations you can perform while viewing a BIRT data design, see Using BIRT Data Analyzer.

Items You Can Run. When you choose a file from Items You Can Run, Actuate Deployment Kit displays a page for submitting a run request.

The document pages that display folder contents show these files in separate sections. Depending on which files you can access, you see some, all, or none of these categories.

From the document pages, you can perform the following additional file operations:

Get detailed information about a file.

Delete files that you own.

Table 2-1 lists the available default set of file types.

Table 2-1

Deployment Kit file types

File type	Description
cubeview	BIRT Cube View file
htm or html	HTML document
rptdesign	Actuate BIRT Report Design
rptdocument	Actuate BIRT Report Document
rptlibrary	Actuate BIRT Report Design Library
rpttemplate	Actuate BIRT Report Design Template
soi	Actuate Spreadsheet
sod	Actuate Spreadsheet Design
sox	Actuate Spreadsheet Executable
data	BIRT Data Design
xls	Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
xlsx	Microsoft Excel Open XML Format Spreadsheet

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