BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, 2/e (Eclipse Series) (Paperback)

The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site. Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution, from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.

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.

BIRT, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Reporting is an essential resource for users who want to create presentation quality reports from day one. The extensive examples, step-by-step instructions, and abundant illustrations help new users develop their report design skills quickly. Power users can find the information they need to make the most of the product’s rich set of features to build complex and compelling reports. 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

全球開發者社群已從Eclipse網站下載了超過三百萬份BIRT（商業智能和報表工具）。BIRT是建立在開源Eclipse平台上的強大報表系統，提供從創建和部署報表到在企業應用程式中整合報表功能的端到端解決方案。

作為關於這一令人興奮的技術的兩本書系列中的第一本，《BIRT第二版：報表實戰指南》是使用BIRT報表設計師的權威指南，該圖形化工具使各級用戶能夠在不需要任何編程的情況下構建從簡單到複雜的報表。

《BIRT第二版：報表實戰指南》是一個必不可少的資源，適用於希望從第一天起創建具有演示質量的報表的用戶。豐富的示例、逐步指導和大量插圖有助於新用戶快速發展報表設計技能。高級用戶可以找到他們需要的信息，以充分利用產品豐富的功能集來構建複雜而引人入勝的報表。在閱讀完本書之後，您將學到以下內容以及更多：

- 設計有效的商業和企業報表，通過圖像、圖表、表格和交叉表傳達信息
- 使用各種來源（包括數據庫、XML文檔、電子表格和Web服務）構建報表
- 通過超鏈接、工具提示和高亮顯示等互動功能使報表更生動
- 創建一致風格的報表，並通過使用模板和可重用元素庫與其他報表設計師進行協作
- 將報表本地化以適應國際受眾

這本修訂和擴展的第二版增加了更新的示例，並涵蓋了所有新的和改進的產品功能，包括：

- 交叉表和OLAP立方體
- 新的圖表類型，包括甘特圖、氣泡圖、管圖和錐圖
- Web服務作為新的數據源
- 新的報表輸出格式，包括doc、ppt、xls和PostScript
- 報表引用CSS的能力
- 報表參數和數據值的本地化