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BIRT Information Designer

BIRT Information Designer is a visual development tool for developers to create meta data objects that represent controlled, business user views of data for inclusion in BIRT reports. BIRT Information Designer creates metadata objects that pull and integrate real-time data from multiple heterogeneous data sources.

Features Overview


BIRT Designer Compatibility
BIRT Information Designer is compatible with BIRT Designers.

  • Data access flexibility - supports the same data sources as the BIRT Designers.
  • Component -based reuse - create components to be included in the BIRT report libraries for use in multiple reports.

Visual development environment
BIRT Information Designer is a highly graphical, visual development environment to create Information Objects that specify data sources, calculated fields, and meta-data names for fields and columns.

  • Explicit query definitions - supports pre-setting specific queries and explicitly specifying how queries should execute and return results.
  • Role-based access control - supports controlling which information users can receive, based user role and access privileges. Filters and conditions can be applied to allow personalized views of data for each user.