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<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">The <strong>FB Oda Driver</strong> enables to you to execute FQL queries and generate BIRT reports.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">FQL queries are very similar to SQL queries ( with limited functionality ).The query is posted to the Facebook API and result is converted to Birt Result Set.To read about FQL syntax, what tables are exposed by Facebook visit <a href=\"
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/\">FQL Reference </a>.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>Code & Project Details:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong> </strong>Find source uploaded at <a href=\"
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/oda-driver-birt-fb/\">Google Eclipse Labs</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">Downloads:</span></strong></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">Find the driver jars named \"Plugins.zip\" at the <a href=\"
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/oda-driver-birt-fb/downloads/list\">downloads page</a> of Eclipse labs project hosting</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>User Guide:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong> </strong>Find a detailed user guide at the <a href=\"
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/oda-driver-birt-fb/downloads/list\">downloads page </a>of Eclipse labs project hosting.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>Report Design:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong></strong>Find Sample Reports.zip at the <a href=\"
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/oda-driver-birt-fb/downloads/list\">downloads page </a>of Eclipse labs project hosting.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">This contains two report design files, the queries used in these files and screen shots at Downloads page.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>Tips:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong></strong>The Data Source has a property \"Access Token\".If left empty u r in no authentication mode, you can execute queries which fetch only public data.If u want to access private data, please login into Facebook and generate a temporary access token giving required permissions for the query.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">Usage guide gives more details on Access Token.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>Tutorials:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong></strong>FQL , There are more than 65 odd tables that FB exposes for querying. Each table has a detailed meta data information about what columns exist, what data type it is, etc</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">Read <a href=\"
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/\">FQL Reference </a></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\"><strong>Credits:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">This entry was created in collaboration with Sylvan Sam as part of our exploration for a pet project we are working on. </span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">This project uses a open source library <a href=\"
http://restfb.com/\">Rest FB</a></span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: \''times new roman\'', times;\">This <a href=\"/org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/345-creating-custom-birt-data-sources-archived-webinar/\">webinar session</a> was very useful for getting started with ODA Driver</span></p>
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/oda-driver-birt-fb/
