Actuate BIRT Report Designer Pro and Eclipse All-in-One Report Designer can be used to create extensions that can then be used by any of the four BIRT Report Designers.
- Visual Components - allows introduction of new visual components into reports and new attributes for existing components.
- Data Access - allows adding custom data access methods, including runtime components for fetching data and UI used at design time
- Report elements - allows adding custom report items to existing palette of items.
- Output Format - allows adding emitter to output reports to any custom format.
- Charts and Graphs - allows custom charts and new graphic formats to be plugged into the charting engine.
- Cheat Sheets - allows addition of application-specific help for developers to create reports.