You install Actuate BIRT Designer Professional using the installation wizard. The installation wizard:
Asks you to accept or decline the license agreement
Prompts you to set the install location
Installs the Eclipse workbench into BDPro\eclipse
Copies Actuate BIRT Designer Professional features into:
BDPro\eclipse\features
Copies Actuate BIRT Designer Professional plug-ins and JAR files into:
BDPro\eclipse\plugins
Creates an entry in the Start menu for BIRT Designer Professional.
The entry is BIRT Designer Professional and is under the BIRT iHub group.
Check with your computer administrator for the best location to install BIRT Designer Professional.
How to install on Microsoft Windows systems
You download BIRT Designer Professional from an Actuate electronic download site. To install BIRT Designer Professional, complete the following steps.
1 Download the version of BIRT Designer Professional that matches your operating system:
Download ActuateBIRTDesignerProfessional-iHub31.exe installation file if your computer uses a 32-bit version of Windows.
Download ActuateBIRTDesignerProfessional_x86_64-iHub31.exe installation file if your computer uses a 64-bit version of Windows.
2 Run the Actuate BIRT Designer Professional file. If you are asked to allow the program to make changes to your computer, choose yes.
3 In Installer Language, select the installation language for BIRT Designer Professional and choose OK, as shown in Figure 1‑1.
Figure 1‑1 Selecting the installation language
4 A welcome message appears, as shown in Figure 1‑2. Choose Next.
Figure 1‑2 Welcome message
5 Read and accept the license agreement. Choose I Agree.
6 Accept the default destination folder or provide a different location. Then, choose Install, as shown in Figure 1‑3.
Figure 1‑3 Choosing the destination folder
Setup status appears, providing you with information as the installation progresses. To show installation details, choose Show details.
7 When the installation completes, a message that BIRT Designer Professional installed successfully appears, as shown in Figure 1‑4. To exit the installation wizard, choose Finish.
Figure 1‑4 Exiting the installation wizard
The installation program installs the BIRT Designer Professional entry on the Start menu, as shown in Figure 1‑5.
Figure 1‑5 BIRT Designer Professional entry
The first time you run BIRT Designer Professional, you are asked to select a workspace folder to store your projects. You can create a new workspace or select an existing workspace. After selecting the workspace location, BIRT Designer Professional starts, as shown in Figure 1‑6.
Figure 1‑6 BIRT Designer Professional starting
How to set BIRT Designer Professional to run as an administrator on Windows 7
1 In Windows Explorer, navigate to the eclipse subdirectory of the BIRT Designer Professional installation directory. The location of this directory is:
\BDPro\eclipse
2 Right-click eclipse.exe and choose Properties.
3 On Properties, choose Compatibility.
4 On Compatibility, select Run this program as an administrator. Choose OK.
How to install BIRT Designer Professional on Mac OS X systems
Download BIRT Designer Professional from an Actuate electronic download site. Java for OS X is required and must be installed separately. You can download Java for OS X from the following URL:
2 Select a location on your computer to store BIRT Designer Professional and uncompress the file you downloaded to this location. This creates the directory named BRDPro with an eclipse subdirectory.
3 In the eclipse subdirectory of BRDPro, run Eclipse, as shown in Figure 1‑7.
Figure 1‑7 BIRT Designer Professional starti ng in Mac OS X
If your Finder preferences enable the display of all file-name extensions, run the file named Eclipse.app.
If you receive the message that Eclipse cannot open because it is downloaded from the internet or it is from an unidentified developer, press Ctrl and select Eclipse, and then choose Open, as shown in Figure 1‑8.
Figure 1‑8 Opening BIRT Designer Professional while pressing Ctrl
The first time you run BIRT Designer Professional, you are asked to select a workspace folder to store your projects. You can create a new workspace or select an existing workspace.
To start BIRT Designer Professional from the command line, such as in a script or to use a specific Java JDK, run eclipse located in the eclipse folder. For example, the following command launches BIRT Designer Professional from the Mac OS X terminal:
To uninstall BIRT Designer Professional, on Windows, run the uninstaller from Control Panel➛Programs. On MacOSX, remove the BRDPro directory. If your workspace is in a different location, you can optionally remove this directory to remove the files you created using BIRT Designer Professional.
Asks you to accept or decline the license agreement
