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Wed, 08 February 2006 22:33

Eclipse User

Does anyone know if the report item extension mechanism the same for BIRT
2.0 as for BIRT 1.0. I see that the BIRT 1.0 documentation does a good job
of explaining the mechanism for extending a report item. I want to confirm
that it is not substantially changed for BIRT 2.0.

Re: Report Item Extension [message #126767 is a reply to message #126654]

Thu, 09 February 2006 02:28

Eclipse User

Where did you find the 1.0 documentation from?

"Terry Partridge" <terrypartridge@fairisaac.com> wrote in message
news:e5cb3d7e844263a289b3074eecdae60d$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Does anyone know if the report item extension mechanism the same for BIRT
> 2.0 as for BIRT 1.0. I see that the BIRT 1.0 documentation does a good job
> of explaining the mechanism for extending a report item. I want to confirm
> that it is not substantially changed for BIRT 2.0.
>

Re: Report Item Extension [message #128694 is a reply to message #126767]

Sat, 11 February 2006 13:05

Eclipse User

I found it at http://help.eclipse.org/help31/index.jsp. I assumed because
the copyright on this document was 2005 that it was for BIRT 1.0, also
this help is a bit different from the BIRT 2.0 help, which has a 2006
copyright.

Look under the "Extending BIRT"->"Overview of the extension
framework"->"Understanding a report item extension" section.

This section is not contained in the BIRT 2.0 documentation.

Re: Report Item Extension [message #129152 is a reply to message #128694]

Mon, 13 February 2006 10:11

Eclipse User

That field guide is essentially the one that Actuate is working on to
publish as a book. I am working on the sample item in there, and adding
some significant capabilities to it right now. So much of the mentions of
the sample will change, as well as a little bit of wordier english put in
about the various extension points.

From what I can tell, that is the BIRT 2.0 framework to plug it in. My only
issue is that it's really light on the areas of fetching actual data
elements from the data set, and adding scripting support to your extensions.

"TerryPartridge" <terrypartridge@fairisaac.com> wrote in message
news:8689df16269f4dd830e82329dc0984b8$1@www.eclipse.org...
>I found it at http://help.eclipse.org/help31/index.jsp. I assumed because
>the copyright on this document was 2005 that it was for BIRT 1.0, also this
>help is a bit different from the BIRT 2.0 help, which has a 2006 copyright.
>
> Look under the "Extending BIRT"->"Overview of the extension
> framework"->"Understanding a report item extension" section.
>
> This section is not contained in the BIRT 2.0 documentation.
>
>

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