BIRT-ing Out Loud

Tomorrow, November 19th, Actuate and IBM are co-presenting an online webinar on working with BIRT reports with IBM ClearQuest and I am doing the demo portion.  I plan to show BIRT reports inside the ClearQuest client, the ability to schedule and distribute those reports in the Actuate iServer Express, and interact with the reports using the Interactive Viewer.  There is still time to register if you want to attend.

Tomorrow, November 14th, we will be hosting a webinar on BIRT Exchange showing how to use the e.Spreadsheet Engine APIs to integrate Excel and Java.  We will discuss how simple it is to read existing Excel files into Java, write Excel files from Java, and leverage Excel formula calculations in Java.  New with Version 10 is that some of the Excel read/write functionality will be free.  The webinar is a brisk 30 minutes so plan to show up 5-10 minutes early so you don’t miss anything.

Using the e.Spreadsheet Engine APIs in Java
Nov 14, 2008 - 09:00 am PST- 30 minutes

The webinar will be recorded and available from the same link for those of you reading this post after November 14th.

While much of BIRT Exchange talks about the BIRT reporting technology, there is another technology represented here around the e.Spreadsheet product line.  One of these products, the e.Spreadsheet Designer, allows you to author rich spreadsheet reports that you can deliver from your applications.  While this designer is quite feature-rich, providing working charts, real formulas, outlining, and multiple worksheets, there are times you may want to extend this designer even further.

This Friday, October 31st, at 9am PST, Parag Sanghavi from Actuate Support will treat us with a few tricks on how to extend the e.Spreadsheet Designer with Java Callback Classes allowing the designer to handle any spreadsheet reporting requirement thrown at it.  More information on this webinar and sign up information is at the link below.

Working with e.Spreadsheet Callback Classes
Oct 31, 2008 - 09:00 am

This Friday, October 17th, Mark Gamble from Actuate Corporation will demonstrate the Flash map capability available soon with the Actuate BIRT Designer.  This is short, 30 minute, webinar that is part of the BIRT Exchange developer webinar series.

More information and registration can be found at the link below.

Incorporating Flash-based Geospatial Visualizations into BIRT Reports
Oct 17, 2008 - 09:00 am

An archive of this webinar will be available from the same link a few days after the webinar is completed. 

This new JavaScript API provides an embeddable BIRT Report Interactive Viewer, Report Parameter Control and DataService object that can be used in any web page (JSP, ASP, PHP, HTML, etc.), and also provides the APIs that allow custom JS code to interact with report content & report parameters.

You can get a sneak peek of the new JavaScript API this Friday, Sept 5th, at 9am PST in an online webinar through BIRT Exchange at the link below.  You can also download Milestone versions of this JavaScript API as part of the Actuate iServer Express available at the Actuate 10 Beta link below.

Webinar: Getting started with Actuate Web 2.0 JavaScript API (Friday, Sept 5th, at 9am PST)

Actuate 10 Beta page

This Friday, August 8th, we will be presenting a short 30 minute webinar on using the free Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer.  This webinar is for those of you that appreciate the difference between a XLS export of data and a true spreadsheet with live charts, formulas and multiple worksheets. 

More information on this webinar can be found here

This Friday, July 11th, Rob Murphy from Actuate will be demonstrating how to use the web-based BIRT report designer.  This webinar is part of the BIRT Exchange webinar series which are only 30 minutes in length every other week.

Sign up for the webinar or get more information at BIRT Exchange.

The webinar will be recorded and available at the same link above a few days after the webinar.

The BIRT Design Engine APIs (DEAPI) can be used to generate the XML BIRT report design file through Java code.  You can also use the DEAPI in scripts to modify the report design on the fly before the report is executed.

This Friday, June 13th at 9am Pacific Time, Jason Weathersby will be discussing the Design Engine API and will be showing some real world examples in a webinar through BIRT Exchange.  This is a very short webinar (only 30 minutes) so you might want to log in a few minutes early so you don’t miss anything. 

Registration is required.  More information and sign up page available here.

This Friday (April 18th), Pierre Tessier from Actuate, will be giving a live demonstration on developing your own custom data source for your BIRT reports using the Eclipse Open Data Access(ODA). The example shown creates a custom data source to the eBay Web Services API. This is a short 30 minute web based session and should also allow for questions at the end. More info and sign up here.

Starting this Friday, March 7th, we will host short educational webinars approximately every two weeks. The webinars will be developer oriented and are quick 30 minute sessions that focus on a single topic with time for questions at the end.  The first 3 webinars have been scheduled.  The first webinar is an overview of the iServer Express since we just released this server and want to show it off.  The second webinar is an introduction to the BIRT Designer for the new BIRT user, and the third webinar will cover BIRT scripting and events.

Sign up for the webinars here

The webinar schedule for the rest of the year has not been finalized so add your topic ideas as a comment on this post or email me.