BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting -- Table of Contents -- BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Introduction to BI -- The current state of the BI market -- The need for open source reporting -- Why BIRT? -- What is BIRT? -- The origins of BIRT -- Features of BIRT -- Eclipse framework -- BIRT distributions -- Conventions used in this book -- Summary -- 2. Installing BIRT -- BIRT prerequisites -- Software requirements -- Hardware requirements -- Where do I get BIRT? -- Installing BIRT from the All-In-One package -- Installing BIRT All-in-One under Linux -- Installation of BIRT through the Eclipse Plugin update program -- Building BIRT from source -- Summary -- 3. The BIRT Environment and First Report -- A basic scenario -- The BIRT perspective -- The BIRT workbench -- The Navigator -- The Outline -- The Palette -- The Data Explorer -- Resource Explorer -- Property Editor -- Report Designer -- Setting up a simple project -- Creating a simple report -- The hidden views -- Getting access to cheat sheets and the simple listing report tutorial within Eclipse -- Summary -- 4. Visual Report Items -- Labels -- Images -- Text and Dynamic Text -- Grid -- Aggregation -- Summary -- 5. Working with Data -- BIRT data capabilities -- Understanding the data components of BIRT -- The Data Source -- XML Data Source -- Flat file data adapter -- The JDBC Data Source -- Datasets -- Dataset for flat files -- JDBC Datasets -- Joined Dataset -- Creating data using the data store -- Tables -- Creating tables using drag and drop -- Creating tables manually -- Groups -- Lists -- Aggregations -- Web service Data Source.

Adding additional data aware components to the palette -- Summary -- 6. Report Parameters -- Why parameterize reports? -- Dataset parameters and report parameters -- Getting input from the user -- Creating parameter binding the easy way -- Dynamic Report Parameters and Filters -- Cascading parameters -- Parameter grouping and reports with multiple parameters -- Setting default parameter values -- Summary -- 7. Report Projects and Libraries -- Report projects -- Creating new Report Projects -- Importing and exporting Report Projects -- Other project options -- Libraries -- Creating a new library -- Adding components to a library -- Adding a data source to a library -- Adding a visual element to a library -- Using components stored in a library -- Updating components in the library to update reports -- Adding existing components in reports to libraries -- Master Pages -- Summary -- 8. Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns -- Pie chart -- Pie chart with explosions -- Pie charts-working with percentages -- Gauge chart -- Bar chart -- Summary -- 9. Scripting and Event Handling -- Types of Scripting -- Expressions -- Event Handling -- Contexts -- Adding elements to report -- Removing elements from a report -- Adding sorting conditions -- Affecting behavior of report rendering based on condition through script -- Scripted data source -- Using Java objects as Event Handlers -- How Chart Event Handling differs from other report items -- Chart events and the bookmark property for interactivity -- Multiselecting parameters and binding them to a dataset through Property Binding -- Using the MultiSelect parameter in an Event Handler -- Using the Innovent Custom Script Libraries for query binding -- More scripting examples -- Summary -- 10. Deployment -- BIRT Viewer -- Installing reports into the Web Viewer -- Accessing reports in the Web Viewer -- Command line tools.

Report Engine API -- Outputing to different formats -- Summary -- Index.