BIRT Designer for End Users

Features: Re-usable Templates and Themes

The BIRT Designer for End Users includes pre-built templates with report layout and structure such as rows, columns, tables, labels, and data fields from which business users create ad hoc and interactive reports. It uses pre-built report themes to determine the overall appearance of a report, such as colors or branding. Custom templates and themes can be built by developers using any of the four BIRT Report Designers.

Report Templates

Pre-define report templates are the foundation of a BIRT Designer for End Users report, defining report data and structure.

• Single Table - creates a listing report with an optional chart; data within the tables can be grouped or displayed in sequential sections.
• Parallel Table - creates a report with two tables arranged in a parallel layout; data within the tables can be grouped or displayed in sequential sections and charts can be inserted in the tables.
• Sequential Table - creates a report with two tables arranged sequentially; other features are as described above.
• Custom Templates - uses custom templates built specifically for an organization using BIRT Report Designer or BIRT Designer Pro.

Themes

Report themes define the color, look and design of reports created with the BIRT Designer for End Users.

• Pre-built themes - lets users select the overall appearance of their reports, including colors, fonts, images, headers, footers and branding elements including logos.
• Custom themes - uses custom themes built specifically for an organization using any of the four developer-oriented BIRT Report Designers.

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