About Using Actuate BIRT Designer Professional

Using Actuate BIRT Designer Professional describes how to use Actuate BIRT Designer to create reports, and the Actuate BIRT option to configure and distribute BIRT reports.

Using Actuate BIRT Designer Professional describes the additional functionality available in Actuate BIRT Designer Professional that is not available in the open‑source BIRT Report Designer. Actuate provides this functionality as extra Eclipse features that integrate into the Eclipse BIRT report designer environment. For information about the functionality shared with the open-source BIRT Report Designer, see BIRT: A Field Guide and Integrating and Extending BIRT, both published by Addison-Wesley.

Accessing data. This section lists all the types of data sources that Actuate BIRT Designer supports, and provides an overview of how reports access data.

Creating data objects. This section describes how to create data objects to provide data for dashboards and reports.

Accessing data in a data object. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from a data object.

Accessing data in an information object. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from an information object.

Accessing data in a report document. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from a report document.

Accessing data in an e.report. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from a report developed with Actuate e.Report Designer Professional.

Accessing data in Amazon DynamoDB. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from a database store in Amazon DynamoDB.

Accessing data in Amazon Relational Database Service. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from a database instance in Amazon RDS.

.Accessing data in Salesforce.com. This section describes how to connect to and retrieve data from Salesforce.com.

Combining data from multiple data sources. This section describes how to combine data from different data sets.

Formatting a report. This section describes the additional report formatting options in Actuate BIRT Designer.

Building HTML5 charts. This section describes the requirements and methods for adding and formatting HTML5 charts in a report.

Using Flash objects in a report. This section describes the requirements and methods for adding Flash objects in a report.

Using built‑in Flash charts and gadgets. This section describes how to create and format Flash charts and gadgets using the Flash chart and Flash gadget builders.

Using the Flash object library. This section describes how to add Flash objects from the InfoSoft Flash object library to a report.

Writing expressions using EasyScript. This section describes how to write expressions using EasyScript, which is an expression syntax similar to the syntax used in Excel formulas. The section also provides a reference to the EasyScript functions and operators.

Specifying filter conditions at report run time. This section describes how to create dynamic filters and report parameters, which provide users more control over what data they see in a report.

Displaying cross tab data by relative time periods. This section describes how to aggregate cross tab data by relative time periods, such as year-to-date, current quarter, or trailing 30 days.

Adding HTML buttons to a report. This section describes how to use HTML buttons to run JavaScript code.

Controlling user access to report pages and data. This section describes how to use the page-level security and data security features in Actuate iHub to control user access to particular sections in a report and a particular set of data in a data object.

Accessing iHub environment information. This section describes how to write event handlers in a report to retrieve iHub environment information.

Performing impact analysis. This section describes how to assess the impact of changes in a database and in BIRT objects.

Deploying BIRT reports to iHub. This section describes how to use the Actuate BIRT Report option to run and distribute BIRT reports in Actuate iHub.

Configuring data source connections in iHub. This section describes how to set up and use a data source configuration file using Actuate iHub.

Configuring fonts in iHub. This section describes how to set up and use custom fonts in Actuate BIRT reports using Actuate iHub.

Working with BIRT encryption in iHub. This section describes how to set up and use report encryption using Actuate iHub.

Using custom emitters in iHub. This section describes how to provide custom output formats for Actuate BIRT reports on Actuate iHub.

Using the BIRT data object API. This section describes how to work with BIRT data objects and report designs programmatically.