At the end, the goal is to have a nice document with all the data transformed according to the report design.
To export rptdocument
(the report document), navigate to Run | Generate Document. This way, you will be able to use this in other frameworks compatible with BIRT, such as a report server. For details check the BIRT integration guide:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/
When you want to export the report in a more static format, you should select one of the options in Run | View Report, or use the icon that resembles "Earth" from the icon's menu to access the same options. The default installation has the following options to export the document: Web Viewer (it is an interactive local or remote report viewer), doc
, HTML
, odp
, ods
, odt
, pdf
, postscript
, ppt
, and xls
.
Note
The ppt
support is not ideal; visit the following link for more information:https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=328982
When you either generate or just view the report, you will be...