•  Programming using the BIRT Reporting APIs
  •  Building a reporting application
    •  About the development environment
      • About plug-ins in BIRT home
      • About libraries in BIRT home
      • About required JDBC drivers
      • Setting up the build path and accessing Javadoc
      • How to add BIRT libraries and API Javadoc to a Java application’s build path
    • Modifying a report design using the API
    • About the deployment environment
  •  Generating reports from an application
    •  Setting up the report engine
      • Configuring the BIRT home
      • Configuring the report engine
      • Setting up a stand-alone or WAR file environment
      • Starting the platform
      • Creating the report engine
      • How to set up a report engine as a stand-alone application
      • How to set up a report engine as a web application
      • Using the logging environment to debug an application
      • How to use BIRT logging
    •  Opening a source for report generation
      • Understanding an IReportRunnable object
      • How to access a report design
      • Understanding an IReportDocument object
      • How to access a report document
    •  Accessing a report parameter
      • How to set the value of a known report parameter
      • How to use the Collection of report parameters
      • How to use cascading parameters
    •  Preparing to generate the report
      • Setting the parameter values for running a report design
      • Adding to the report engine’s class path
      • Providing an external object to a report design
      • Generating a binary report document
      • How to generate a binary report document
    •  Preparing to render a formatted report
      • Setting up the rendering options
      • How to configure properties for a report in HTML format
    •  Rendering formatted output
      • How to generate a report from a report design
      • How to generate a partial report from a binary report document
    • Accessing the formatted report
    • Checking the status of a running report task
    •  Cancelling a running report task
      • How to cancel a running report task
  •  Programming the structure of a report design
    • About BIRT model API capabilities
    •  Opening a report design for editing
      • Configuring the design engine to access a design handle
      • How to open a report design for editing
      • Using an IReportRunnable object to access a design handle
    •  Using a report item in a report design
      • Accessing a report item by iterating through a slot
      • Accessing a report item by name
      • Examining a report item
      • Accessing the properties of a report item
      • How to access a report item by name
      • How to use the report structure to access a report item
      • Modifying a report item in a report design
      • How to change a simple property of a report item
      • Accessing and setting complex properties
      • How to change a complex property of a report item
      • Understanding property structure objects
      • How to set values on an existing property structure object
      • How to create a complex property object
      • Adding a report item to a report design
      • How to add a grid item and label item to a report design
    •  Accessing a data source and data set with the API
      • About data source classes
      • About data set classes
      • Using a data set programmatically
      • How to change the data source for a data set
      • How to bind a data set to a table
    • Saving a report design
    •  Creating a report design
      • How to create a new report design

Programming using the BIRT Reporting APIs

Creating a report design