Deploying reports
Actuate offers several report designers including:
BIRT Studio
BIRT Designer Professional
e.Report Designer Professional
BIRT Spreadsheet Designer
BIRT Studio is a web-based report design tool for business users. With BIRT Studio, a user designs a report and saves the report design in the Encyclopedia volume. It is not necessary to publish the report design to the Encyclopedia volume. For more information about designing reports with BIRT Studio and integrating BIRT Studio with iHub, see Using BIRT Studio - iHub Edition.
The other report designers reside on the desktop. A report developer designs a report in one of these report designers and publishes the report executable to the Encyclopedia volume. The volume administrator then performs the following tasks:
Places the report executable in the appropriate folder
Schedules a job to generate the report document in the appropriate format, for example PDF
Assigns privileges on the report document for users and roles
Notifies users that the report document is available
For more information about these tasks, see Managing an Encyclopedia Volume.
Before the volume administrator makes reports available to users, he may need to perform additional tasks, for example, define database connections and make fonts available to reports. These tasks are discussed in the following chapters.