Designing, Customizing, and Publishing BIRT Spreadsheet Reports

Course Price: 567 Euro / 4.250 DKK per day

Who Should Attend?
Report developers

Prerequisites:
A working knowledge of SQL, and familiarity with HTML and/or XML is highly recommended for this class

Course Description
The first day of this course teaches business users and other report developers to design, run, and deploy BIRT Spreadsheet reports for viewing on the web. In a laboratory setting, students learn BIRT Spreadsheet reporting concepts and how to use BIRT Spreadsheet Designer wizards to create automated spreadsheet-based reports. Exercises progress from creating simple reports to complex designs using grouping, run-time parameters, and a variety of external data sources. Topics in the course include using automated report formatting, charts, the Data Manager, hyperlinks, the Query Editor, and stored procedures.

The second day teaches students to display summary data in a pivot range, set up report and field-level security, create and use macros, access multiple data sources for a report and implement custom functionality in report designs using Java callback classes. 

Each student receives a comprehensive course manual that serves as a workbook during class and as a detailed reference guide.

Topics:

• BIRT Spreadsheet reporting concepts
• Creating and formatting BIRT Spreadsheet reports
• Using parameters, multiple report ranges and defined names
• Adding charts and hyperlinks
• Outlining a report
• Publishing reports to the web
• Using pivot ranges
• Setting up security features
• Using macros in reports
• Accessing multiple data sources
• Programming a report using callback classes