Create/Generate Report

On 5/4/2009 10:58 AM, disfunction2106 wrote:

I'm trying to create and generate report and I was told I need to
download BIRT. Should I download the RCP Designer or All-In-One?

Are you using 1.0.1 or 1.0.1.1? See the instructions here:
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ReportsCreatingANewReport
It includes links to the exact birt, dtp, and emf versions which need to
be downloaded and installed into your RTC client. (Don't use the
all-in-one zip).

Hope this helps.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

Thanks. After I downloaded the exact birt program how should I installed it into RTC program? Please advise me thanks

On 5/5/2009 9:58 AM, disfunction2106 wrote:

Thanks. After I downloaded the exact birt program how should I
installed it into RTC program? Please advise me thanks

The way I do it is to find your RTC installation folder, and find the
eclipse\links folder. Create a .link file for BIRT, and one for DTP and
one for EMF (replacing the dtp and emf ones that ship with RTC). Point
these link files to wherever you unzipped BIRT/DTP/EMF.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

On 5/5/2009 9:58 AM, disfunction2106 wrote:

Thanks. After I downloaded the exact birt program how should I
installed it into RTC program? Please advise me thanks

The way I do it is to find your RTC installation folder, and find the
eclipse\links folder. Create a .link file for BIRT, and one for DTP and
one for EMF (replacing the dtp and emf ones that ship with RTC). Point
these link files to wherever you unzipped BIRT/DTP/EMF.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

Hi James

Can we use the BIRT plugin on Express to generate reports? And do you perhaps know if anyone has tried using other reporting tools such as Crystal Reports with RTC?

thanks

anthony

On 5/7/2009 5:18 PM, kesterto wrote:

jmoodywrote:
On 5/5/2009 9:58 AM, disfunction2106 wrote:
Thanks. After I downloaded the exact birt program how should I
installed it into RTC program? Please advise me thanks


The way I do it is to find your RTC installation folder, and find the

eclipse\links folder. Create a .link file for BIRT, and one for DTP
and
one for EMF (replacing the dtp and emf ones that ship with RTC). Point

these link files to wherever you unzipped BIRT/DTP/EMF.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

Hi James

Can we use the BIRT plugin on Express to generate reports? And do you
perhaps know if anyone has tried using other reporting tools such as
Crystal Reports with RTC?

thanks

anthony


Reporting (with the exception of some dashboard reports) is not
supported in Express - you'll need Standard in order to deploy reports.

I don't know of anyone who has tried to integrate Crystal Reports. In
1.0 our reporting story was BIRT only. In 2.0 we have extensible APIs,
so it will be possible in theory to integrate other reporting engines.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

On 5/7/2009 5:18 PM, kesterto wrote:

jmoodywrote:
On 5/5/2009 9:58 AM, disfunction2106 wrote:
Thanks. After I downloaded the exact birt program how should I
installed it into RTC program? Please advise me thanks


The way I do it is to find your RTC installation folder, and find the

eclipse\links folder. Create a .link file for BIRT, and one for DTP
and
one for EMF (replacing the dtp and emf ones that ship with RTC). Point

these link files to wherever you unzipped BIRT/DTP/EMF.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

Hi James

Can we use the BIRT plugin on Express to generate reports? And do you
perhaps know if anyone has tried using other reporting tools such as
Crystal Reports with RTC?

thanks

anthony


Reporting (with the exception of some dashboard reports) is not
supported in Express - you'll need Standard in order to deploy reports.

I don't know of anyone who has tried to integrate Crystal Reports. In
1.0 our reporting story was BIRT only. In 2.0 we have extensible APIs,
so it will be possible in theory to integrate other reporting engines.

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

Thanks James - now I know what the tickbox on Reporting really means on the comparison chart.

anthony