BIRT Designer Pro


Features


The BIRT Designer Pro includes numerous features and updates, ranging from design environment improvements to more agile data access to additional/enhanced output formats and more:

Design

  • HTML5 rendering for BIRT charts, providing animation and new drawing techniques
  • HTML5 BIRT chart themes, which can contain scripting logic
  • New donut chart
  • Enhanced layout: true WYSIWYG design environment
  • New dynamic parameters
  • Excel®-like EasyScript scripting language
  • Consistent style sheet support across all report output formats
  • Support for the use of diagonal lines in layouts

Data Access

  • Hadoop™ via Hive connector
  • Salesforce.com connector
  • Automatic Data Object creation lets developers import a file or database and automatically create a new data object for dashboards or self-service
  • BIRT Designer Pro can use BIRT Data Objects as data sources
  • Automatic query optimization
  • BIRT Data Objects as data sources
  • New ODA driver for POJO (Plain Old Java Objects)
  • New data set functions with improved support for unions and joins
  • Support parameters in XML data sources

Output

  • Support for HTML5 visualizations, providing access for mobile users on Apple® devices
  • Excel emitter for analysis-ready Excel output
  • Flash® content display in PDF output
  • High-quality PDF output
  • XHTML emitter
  • Polar/Radar chart

Deployment

  • Impact analysis allows developers to see impact of changes prior to implementation
  • Plug-in free deployment directly from BIRT Designer Professional to BIRT onDemand
  • Full BIRT Designer Pro features are available when deploying to BIRT onDemand
  • Publish directly from BIRT Designer Pro to reports without publishing to iServer

Scripting/programmability

  • Support for scripting in HTML5 charts and chart themes
  • Support for scripting in Flash charts and gadgets
  • Page level variables
  • Support for JavaScript in parameter default values
  • New duration functions

Benefits


These updates and enhancements provide users with measurable development and business benefits in every step of the design process:

  • Improved developer productivity
  • Increased flexibility and control
  • Improved report development efficiency
  • Improved user access to deployed content
  • Significant savings through lower development and maintenance costs
  • Consistent layout regardless of how a report is viewed, whether it’s on the Web or as a PDF
  • Closer alignment between user needs and output, eliminating multiple design revisions/iterations
Applications built with ActuateOne® provide users with one user experience regardless of task, tool or skill level; are supported by one server with a set of services to support any deployment and are built with one design using BIRT. ActuateOne provides organizations with a quick time to market and the ability to grow with success.

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Want to learn more?

For more information about BIRT Design, please contact an Actuate expert at 1-800-914-2259 (US & Canada) or click here. You can also contact one of our offices worldwide or visit our BIRT community site BIRT-Exchange.com.