BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, 2nd Second Edition (PDF英文版)


By Diana Peh, Nola Hague, Jane Tatchell
Published Jul 17, 2008 (Addison-Wesley)
Pages: 794
ISBN-10: 0-321-58027-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-58027-6

The first in a two-book series about this exciting technology, BIRT, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Reporting is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, simple to sophisticated, without any programming.

By the time you finish this book, you learn the following and more：



Design effective business and corporate reports that convey information through images, charts, tables, and cross tabs

Build reports using data from a variety of sources, including databases, XML documents, spreadsheets, and web services

Enliven reports with interactive features, such as hyperlinks, Tooltips, and highlighting

Create consistently styled reports and collaborate with other report designers through the use of templates and libraries of reusable elements


Localize reports for an international audience


This second edition, revised and expanded, adds updated examples and covers all the new and improved product features, including：



Cross tabs and OLAP cubes

New chart types, including Gantt, bubble, tube, and cone charts

Web services as a new data source

New report output formats, including doc, ppt, xls, and PostScript

The capability for reports to reference CSS

Localization of report parameter and data values


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