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BIRT Report Help

The document provides instructions for installing BIRT reporting tools in Eclipse, creating a sample report project, connecting it to an Oracle database, designing a report with tables and columns, exporting the report file for use in Tririga, modifying an existing report, and uploading the updated file. Key steps include downloading the BIRT and JDBC plugins, creating a data source, dataset and table component for the report design, zipping the file, importing it into Tririga's document manager, and viewing changes by running the report.

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BIRT Report Help

The document provides instructions for installing BIRT reporting tools in Eclipse, creating a sample report project, connecting it to an Oracle database, designing a report with tables and columns, exporting the report file for use in Tririga, modifying an existing report, and uploading the updated file. Key steps include downloading the BIRT and JDBC plugins, creating a data source, dataset and table component for the report design, zipping the file, importing it into Tririga's document manager, and viewing changes by running the report.

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BIRT Report

1) Install 32bit Eclipse with BIRT Plugin,


https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/
neon/3/eclipse-reporting-neon-3-win32.zip

2) Once Installation is completed: open Eclipse, go to Help -> Install new software and below
window appears: In Work with, give the “Tririga Dev” or any environment’s login url and add
keyword “eclipse” at end as show below,

3) Click “Add…” and then below pop up appears, give any name and click “Ok”

4) Select the check box displayed as shown below and click “Finish” Button to complete the setup.
5) Once the Installation is completed, go to File -> New -> Project we must be able to see the below
window with BIRT features:

6) Select “Report Project” from “Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools”.


7) Give name for your Project and click “Finish” button and below window appears:

8) To have connection with database we need ojdbc6.jar file to have driver installed for database
activity. This can be downloaded from the below URL,
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/apps-tech/jdbc-112010-090769.html

9) To create data source, under Data Explorer select Data -> New Data Source below window
appears, select “JDBC Data Source” click “Next”
10) Enter all the details as shown in below screen shot and click “Finish” button. Please note that
the below screen shown connection to DEV database.

Also ensure that Connection is successful by clicking on “Test Connection…”

11) To create New Dataset for the BIRT, under Data Explorer -> Dataset -> New Dataset, Select Data
Set Type as “SQL Select Query” and click “Next”.
12) In Query Text, type the required query and click “Finish”.

13) From Palette drag and drop the required components and as shown in below screen Table is put
into the intelligence window. Once we drop it in the intelligence window, “Insert Table” popup
can be seen as seen below. Select the dataset created in the above step and select the required
columns and click “Ok”.

14) Below table will be displayed, you can change the column name as required for display purpose.

You can also include the customization as required for the report using the properties section
and run it to view the result.

Note: Make sure the IE is kept open before running the report.
To Import the BIRT report into Tririga:

15) Under Navigator, right click the report you created and select the Properties, to find the location
of the file and then zip the .rpt design file.

16) In Tririga Go to My Report -> System Reports -> Create New report and select type as “ External”
and save the report.

17) In Tririga Go to Tools -> Document Manager -> Tririga -> Contract -> Click New Document -> in
the popup browse for the .zip file, give the ‘Document Name’ and click “Submit” button.

18) The BIRT report file has been created and added to “Document Manager” as shown below,
19) Then go to the report which was created previously, under General -> Option (tab) -> Document
-> click magnify symbol, popup will be seen as on right side, select the file name which was
loaded and then click “Accept”.

20) Click Save and run the report. Below window will be displayed.

To Change or Modify the Existing Report:

21) Go to Eclipse -> Select the report to be modified, make the change and save it.

22) Please note that user can also modify the font properties of the report as per the requirement,
as shown below:
23) Once changes are completed, move to the location where we have the .rpt design file and
delete the .zip which was created earlier and then again take the .zip of the latest .rpt file.

24) Load the new changes to Tririga by navigating as Tools - > Document Manager -> Tririga ->
Contract -> Select the existing BIRT report -> click “Check Out” to overwrite it with new file.

25) Once Check out is completed successfully, the system is ready to import new document, as
show below:

26) Upload the modified BIRT report’s .zip folder and you can see the number of revision done for
that particular document as shown below,
27) Run the report to see the latest changes in Tririga.

28) You can see the changes in the report that was run as shown below,

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