A job designated to run at a particular time, save its output in a volume, and optionally repeat that process. Information Console supports creating and managing a scheduled job.

The parts of a program in which a symbol or object exists or is visible. The location of an item’s declaration determines its scope. Scopes can be nested. For example, a method introduces a new scope for its parameters and local variables. A class introduces a scope for its member variables, member functions, and nested classes. Code in a method in one scope has visibility to other symbols in that same scope and, with certain exceptions, to symbols in outer scopes.

In the report editor in BIRT Designer Professional, the page where a report developer adds or modifies JavaScript for a report element.

See EasyScript.

See privilege.

See SQL SELECT statement.

To highlight one or more items, such as a string or an image.

See Actuate BIRT iHub.

A set of configurable properties that defines a capacity option for the BIRT service on a cluster node. The cluster configuration file contains the template definitions. The system administrator can edit these template definitions and define new templates.

In BIRT iHub System, a periodic signal issued by a cluster node to indicate that it is running. If BIRT iHub System does not receive a response within the specified time period, it assumes that the node is unavailable. The system re‑distributes incoming requests to the remaining nodes.

A set of cooperating processes that supports the operation of the BIRT iHub server. Table G‑3 lists the BIRT iHub server processes.

A configurable part of the BIRT iHub System framework that controls one or more server processes to provide Factory, Integration, or View functionality. For example, the View service controls the Java view processes. The Message Distribution service routes BIRT iHub System messages to the other services. Table G‑4 lists the server services.

In Metrics Management, an organized collection of links, online resources, and other resources that are accessed from a view or briefing book. The links that appear in Share are context sensitive, depending on the selected measure. They are organized by measure, location, category, and application.

The ability to grant access and any of a set of privileges to a dashboard, file, folder, or gadget in a volume.

A construct that represents a set of ROM elements contained in another ROM element. For example, the body slot of the report design element can contain one or more of any type of report item. Figure G‑8 shows a body slot.

An expression used to sort data. For example, if you sort data by country, the country field is a sort key. You can sort data using one or more sort keys.

A query statement in SQL (Structured Query Language) that provides instructions about the data to retrieve from a database. In the following example, the SQL query accesses a database’s customers table and retrieves the customer name and credit limit values where the credit limit is less than or equal to 100,000. The SQL query then sorts the values by customer name.

A variable for which an end user can set an initial value when generating a report. The parameter value affects the report output. For example, if the value of a Summary parameter is True, then the report is a summary. If the value is False, then the report shows all the details. A report design can also use a static parameter to filter data rows returned by the data set.

A disk location storing volume data. The logical name for a storage location points to the path or physical location on disk. By default, the logical name for the default storage location points to the following path on Windows:

A formatted document that displays information from one or more data sources.

A named set of formatting characteristics, such as alignment, borders, color, and font that report developers apply to a report item to control its appearance.

In Metrics Management, any initiative having a parent initiative. Date, budget, and rating values of subinitiatives are consolidated or processed to provide performance indicator values to their parent initiatives.

In Metrics Management, a nested location. For example, if Metrics Management is set up to monitor performance for a region, the sublocations could be the district offices within the region.

In Metrics Management, any data measure, formula measure, or group measure having a parent measure. The indexes of these measures are consolidated or otherwise processed to provide index values to the measure above.

An item using data from a different data set or data source from other items in a report design. An outer report can contain multiple subreports, also called nested reports. In this case, the subreports typically use data values from the outer report to filter data rows for display. Alternatively, multiple independent subreports exist at the same level in the report design.

For BIRT iHub, the process of moving the data and files between a PostgreSQL and Oracle metadata database.

A job type that executes a report as soon as possible. Priorities cannot be set on a synchronous job type. The job output, such as a report document, is available for progressive viewing as soon as the first page of the document is complete.

An administrative application that supports creating and managing BIRT iHub metadata, processes, resources, services, and storage locations. System Console supports operations such as setting up clusters, system administrators, monitoring, security, and volumes. System Console also supports licensing capacity and options, such as the number of volumes.