Rendering in custom formats
After deploying the custom emitter you can see the new rendering formats displayed along with built-in emitters in the following places:
Preview report in Web Viewer in Actuate BIRT Designer
Output page of schedule job in Management Console and Information Console
Attachment Notification page of schedule job in Management Console and Information Console
Export Content in Actuate BIRT Viewer and Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer
The following examples show the deployment and usage of a custom CSV emitter. The CSV emitter renders a report as a comma separated values file. The JAR file name is org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.csv.jar. The custom format type is MyCSV.
To test the emitter functionality with Management Console or Information Console, you schedule any BIRT report design or report document from the examples in the Public folder. The examples that follow use the report from the sample Encyclopedia volume for an iHub:
Public/BIRT and BIRT Studio Examples/CustomerList.rptdesign