About Working with Actuate BIRT Viewers
Working with Actuate BIRT Viewers provides users with information about using Actuate BIRT Viewer and Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer. This document explains how to generate, view, and customize reports.
Introducing Actuate BIRT Viewers. This section introduces the viewing environments for BIRT reports, and lists the modification capabilities each environment provides. The section also compares Actuate BIRT Viewer and Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer.
Navigating a report. This section describes how you can begin working with reports by navigating a report page using the paging tool. The section also explains how to use a table of contents, display parameter values, work with hyperlinks, save a report, and print a report.
Editing and formatting a report. This section describes the formatting options in Interactive Viewer: formatting data columns and static text, formatting various types of data, and applying conditional formatting.
Exporting report data and content. This section describes the exporting options in Interactive Viewer: exporting report data to various flat file formats, and exporting report content to various formats such as AFP, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PostScript, PDF, or Extensible HTML.
Organizing data in a report. This section discusses the functionality Interactive Viewer provides for organizing data, such as sorting data, moving columns, removing duplicate values, creating data groups, and so on. The section also describes how you can perform aggregate calculations, and set page breaks in a report.
Performing calculations in a report. This section describes how you can insert calculated columns in a report and explains how to build expressions and create custom expressions to create new computed columns.
Filtering report data. This section discusses how you can use Interactive Viewer to specify viewing parameter values, and create filters for data in a report.
Modifying charts. This section describes the types of charts in a report and explains how you can modify them using Interactive Viewer. The section provides procedures for changing the subtype and formatting of a chart, and also explains how to drill up and down through data hierarchies, drill through hyperlinks, and switch views between a chart and table or cross tab view of data. The section also describes Flash charts and gadgets, and HTML5 charts, and explains how you can modify them.
Modifying cross tabs This section describes cross tabs and explains how you can use Interactive Viewer to modify the formatting properties of data in a cross tab. The section also describes how you can analyze cross tab data, modify charts in a cross tab, and export, print, and save a cross tab.
Modifying summary tables This section describes summary tables, and explains how you can use Interactive Viewer to modify data in a summary table. The section also describes modifying a chart in a summary table, and saving a summary table.
Functions and operators. This section is a reference for all the functions available in Interactive Viewer. The section also describes the operators you can use when creating expressions for calculations.
Actuate BIRT Viewer Reference. This part contains information about configuring the Actuate BIRT Viewers and accessing a BIRT Viewer using a URI.