<p><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"">This brief tutorial walks you through building a simple report with BIRT. It introduces the major UI features, and many of the BIRT reporting elements. At the completion of this tutorial, you should be able to start building your own reports using your own database.</span></p>
<p><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Some of the areas covered are:</span></p>
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<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Building a DataSource</span></li>
<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Building a DataSet</span></li>
<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Building a Table</span></li>
<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Using Styles</span></li>
<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Using Grids</span></li>
<li><span style=""font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"">Setting Visual/Data Properties</span></li>
</ul>
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/basic/