Overview of customization tasks
Often, organizations customize web applications to offer users a specific suite of services. Organizations also personalize the look and feel of these applications to reflect their corporate styles. You can customize and personalize both Actuate Information Console and BIRT Studio. The following list of customization tasks are specific to BIRT Studio:
Create a suite of report templates on which users can base their reports. BIRT Studio includes a few predefined templates. Custom templates can better suit the types of reports that specific users create.
Provide sets of data that users can use in their reports. This task is required for BIRT Studio users to access the data they need for their reports.
Customize the appearance and functionality of BIRT Studio. For example, if you do not want users to create computed fields in a report, you can disable that functionality.
Deploy multiple instances of Actuate Information Console and BIRT Studio to provide different reporting services to different groups within your organization. For example, users in the marketing group can log in to an Actuate Information Console instance that displays different pages and provides access to sales and marketing data only.
This section provides information about performing these customization tasks.