Generating BIRT Reports in batch mode

Hello,

I am new to BIRT. I have developed several reports using BIRT. Is there a way that I can call the reporting engine from my application and have these reports generated in the background as pdf files so that the user can view then at a later point as pdfs? Is so, could you direct me to some docs or an example?

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JasonW

Yes you can do this. Is your app written in Java? if so take a look at this example:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simple_Execute_(BIRT)_2.1 Just remember to only start the platform once and only create one engine. Then use a new task for each report. You can look at these docs on the engine:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.php

The runtime download also contains a .bat( or .sh) file to run reports from the command line.

Jason

suneetshah

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'JasonW'" data-cid="70286" data-time="1289593922" data-date="12 November 2010 - 01:32 PM">
Yes you can do this. Is your app written in Java? if so take a look at this example: 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simple_Execute_(BIRT)_2.1'>http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simple_Execute_(BIRT)_2.1</a> Just remember to only start the platform once and only create one engine. Then use a new task for each report. You can look at these docs on the engine: 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.php'>http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.php</a> 
 
The runtime download also contains a .bat( or .sh) file to run reports from the command line. 
 
Jason </blockquote>

suneetshah

Thanks Jason.
Yes the app is in Java. I will go through these links

itguy18

HI, I am looking to generate almost a million+ reports from actuate, Is there a command line interface to do this, Also if there is a programing API (VB preferred) please let me know 
 
 
Thanks 
new bee 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'JasonW'" data-cid="70286" data-time="1289593922" data-date="12 November 2010 - 01:32 PM">
Yes you can do this. Is your app written in Java? if so take a look at this example: 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simple_Execute_(BIRT)_2.1'>http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simple_Execute_(BIRT)_2.1</a> Just remember to only start the platform once and only create one engine. Then use a new task for each report. You can look at these docs on the engine: 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.php'>http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.php</a> 
 
The runtime download also contains a .bat( or .sh) file to run reports from the command line. 
 
Jason </blockquote>