A set of functions and associated syntax used to build expressions in Actuate BIRT as an alternative to JavaScript. Using EasyScript supports converting the expression to a live Excel formula in an exported spreadsheet.
Related term
Actuate BIRT technology
Eclipse
An open source development platform, written in Java. The Eclipse platform consists of an extensible plug‑in framework, run-time environments, and tools.
Related terms
framework, plug‑in, run time
Contrast with
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
Eclipse perspective
A visual container that includes a set of views and editors. Eclipse Workbench provides a series of perspectives, such as the BIRT Report Designer, Java Development Environment, and Plug‑in Development Environment (PDE).
Related terms
Eclipse, Eclipse Workbench, information object
Contrast with
view
Eclipse project
A top‑level directory within an Eclipse workspace. An Eclipse project contains folders and files used for builds, resource organization, sharing, and version management.
Related terms
Eclipse, resource
Eclipse Workbench
A graphical development environment providing perspectives used to create, edit, and view a project, such as the report design perspective.
In Metrics Management, effective security represents the actions that a user can perform on a specific object after considering the user’s group membership, object security, related action, publisher hierarchy, and user privilege settings.
Related terms
Metrics Management, object-level security, publisher, user privilege
ellipsis
A button that opens tools used to perform tasks, such as navigating to a file.
Encyclopedia process
See server processes.
Encyclopedia service
See server service.
error log
A set of files that record information about BIRT iHub System errors. Default error logging implements the following four levels: Information, Warning, Severe, Fatal.
Related term
BIRT iHub System
Contrast with
usage log
escape character (\)
A character that precedes a multibyte character or non-printing ASCII character in a search expression. For example, \t represents the Tab character.
event-based job scheduling
A BIRT iHub mechanism that supports scheduling a job based on various types of events, such as the appearance of a file or folder, the completion of a job, or the occurrence of a custom event. A custom event uses a web service to communicate with BIRT iHub.
Related terms
Actuate BIRT iHub, job
Contrast with
event handler, event listener
event handler
A function or method that executes when an event occurs. Report items, data sets, and data sources have event handlers for which a developer can provide code.
Related terms
data set, data source, report item
Contrast with
event listener
event listener
An interface that detects when a particular event occurs and calls a function or method to respond to the event.
Contrast with
event handler
execute privilege
See privilege.
expression builder
A tool for selecting data fields, functions, and operators to write expressions.
Related terms
data, field
external procedure object (.epr) file
A file created using the Information Object Design perspective that represents a stored procedure or open data access (ODA) data source query.
Related terms
data source, file types, Information Object Design perspective, open data access (ODA)
