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Common Designer Features
There are five BIRT Designers that all share a common set of features. The features apply to both the Eclipse BIRT Report Designers and BIRT Designers. Reports developed with any one of the designers can be modified with the other designers.
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Feature Overview
Web 2.0 style reports and data visualizations
BIRT Designers produce rich, highly interactive and navigable Java reports with formatting, graphic, and conditional display options to meet complex requirements.
Web-based design metaphor
BIRT Designers use the drag and drop, WYSIWYG design paradigm of familiar development tools such as Web-page designers, and web-band desktop publishing products for easy report development in Java.
Wizards, editors and builders
BIRT Designers offer task-specific editors, builders and helpers such as wizards and cheat sheets that make reporting easy for developers of all skill levels to create reusable templates and reports.
Component-based model for reuse
BIRT Designers support component and design template reuse for reporting libraries.
Extensible and flexible data access and handling
BIRT Designers efficiently integrate data from multiple data sources, transform the data and manipulate the data based on business logic.
Standards-based programmability
BIRT Designers offer programmatic control using standard languages and interfaces for nearly every aspect of report layout, data access, data transformation and report rendering.
Localization and i18n
BIRT Designers can create reports in a variety of languages and are available in different languages.
