Next steps
You just built your first report and worked with some of the basic tools and features of BIRT Report Designer. There are many more tasks that you can accomplish to build more sophisticated reports. Some of these tasks, described in other chapters of this book, include

Connecting to your own data source

Creating charts

Creating cross tabs

Creating report parameters for user input

Building reports that contain subreports

Formatting report elements based on conditions

Hiding report elements or sections based on conditions

Adding hyperlinks to link your report to web locations or to link one report section to another