•  Using Report Studio to create a BIRT design
  • About Report Studio
  •  Overview of the BIRT design creation process
    • Selecting a template and a data source
    • Selecting, inserting, and limiting displayed data
    • Formatting a BIRT design
    • Saving and viewing a BIRT design
  • Tutorial 1: Creating a simple BIRT design
•  Accessing data
  •  Providing data to a BIRT design
    • About providing data to a BIRT design
    • Using a template
    • Using a theme
    •  Introducing data sources
      • Working with data sets
      • Working with cubes
      • Working with information objects and BIRT data objects
      • Limiting the data retrieved from the data source
    • Selecting a data source
  •  Combining data from multiple sources
    • Requirements for using multiple information objects
    • Joining information objects
    •  Getting current data from a data source
      • Refreshing data in an information object
      • Refreshing data in a data object
•  Building BIRT application components
  •  Working with summary tables
    •  About summary tables
      • Understanding columns in a summary table
      • Designing a summary table
    • Creating a summary table
    •  Modifying a summary table
      • Modifying the report table
      • Modifying labels
      • Working with a dimension column
      • Working with an attribute column
      • Working with a measure column
    • Inserting a chart in a summary table
    • Changing table types
  •  Presenting data in a cross tab
    • About cross tabs
    • Obtaining data for a cross tab
    •  Creating a cross tab
      • Selecting data for a cross tab
      • Laying out data in a cross tab
      • Filtering data in a cross tab
      • Displaying aggregate values
      • Saving and viewing a cross tab
  •  Presenting data in a chart
    •  Working with charts
      • Selecting a chart type
      • Selecting data for a chart
      • Formatting a chart
    • Deleting a chart
    • Displaying a chart without table data
•  Enhancing BIRT application components
  •  Editing and formatting report content
    • Editing and formatting options
    • Changing font properties and alignment
    •  Working with standard formats
      • Applying a standard number format
      • Applying a standard date‑and‑time format
      • Applying a standard string format
    •  Working with custom formats
      • Applying a custom number format
      • Applying a custom date-and-time format
      • Applying a custom string format
    •  Working with predefined data formats
      • Working with a predefined number format
      • Working with a predefined data‑and‑time format
    •  Formatting data based on conditions
      • Specifying a condition
      • Specifying multiple conditional formatting rules
    • Managing columns
    • Merging data into a single column
    • Adding a new column header row
  •  Inserting calculated data
    • About calculated data
    • Creating a computed column
    • Adding data fields for an expression
    •  Writing expressions
      • Using numbers and dates in an expression
      • Using reserved characters in an expression
  •  Organizing data in a report
    • Sorting data
    •  Organizing data in groups
      • Changing the grouping order
      • Deleting a group
    • Organizing data in sections
    •  Suppressing duplicate values
      • Avoiding repeated values in a column
      • Avoiding repeated values in a group
    • Starting each group or section on a new page
  •  Aggregating data
    •  About aggregate data
      • Creating aggregate data
      • Formatting aggregate values
      • Filtering aggregate values
    • Hiding details
  •  Filtering data
    • About data filtering
    •  Creating a filter
      • Specifying filtering options
      • Defining a filter at the report table level
      • Defining a filter at the data set level
      • Defining multiple filter conditions
    •  Prompting for filter values at run time
      • Understanding parameters
      • Creating a static filter parameter
      • Creating a dynamic filter parameter
      • Creating multiple filter parameters
  •  Linking content
    • About linking options
    •  Working with bookmarks
      • Creating a bookmark
      • Modifying a bookmark
      • Deleting a bookmark
    •  Working with hyperlinks
      • Creating a hyperlink
      • Modifying a hyperlink
      • Deleting a hyperlink
    • Working with default hyperlinks
  •  Functions and operators
    • Functions
    • Functions used in computed column expressions
    • Functions used in aggregate calculations
    •  Operators
      • Operators in computed column expressions
      • Operators in conditional formatting and filter condition expressions

Using Report Studio to create a BIRT design

Operators

table_builder_filter

saveas

saveas_error

brs_help

report_template_picking

select_datasource

select_dataset

io_browsing

data_manager

join

add_join

add_join_condition

confirmation

crosstab_builder

chart_settings

font

number_formatting

datetime_formatting

string_formatting

conditional_formatting

value

manage_column

show_columns

border

calculation

data_fields

explore_dataset

advanced_sort

group_detail

select_fields

move_to_group

page_break

aggregation

filter

advanced_filter

parameter

edit_parameter

bookmark

open_file

functions

operators