BIRT Dashboard , BIRT Reports and Deployment

amar.sonwani

<p>Hi All, </p>
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<p>I am new to BIRT so please pardon me if you think that the questions are too basic. </p>
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<p>Our requirement is to have a dashboard. We shortlisted BIRT as it had drag and drop functionality which could help us to Develop the Dashboards quickly.</p>
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<p>We found out that the extensive customizations are not available on Dashboards (Please correct me if i am wrong)</p>
<p>eg. - Change color of bars of graph based on values,</p>
<p>- drilldown of all the graphs if i click on any of the graphs.</p>
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<p>So we tried to create a rptDesign and display it on JSP as a Embedded item using Birt:viewer</p>
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<p>While using only the rptdesign file, the graphs are not visible and are giving error</p>
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org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.DesignParserException (code = Error.DesignParserException.FILE_NOT_FOUND, message : The file "/ThemesReportItems31.rptlibrary" is not found.)</pre>
<p>I was not able to locate this file.</p>
<p>I am able to see this item in Report Libraries > Libraries > ThemesReportItems31 but don't know how to copy this to my Web Project where the BIRT runtime is installed. </p>
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<p>Also i see an error :</p>
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Caused by: org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc.JDBCException: Failed to get connection.SQL error #1:Access denied for user '****'@'****.xx.com' (using password: YES)</pre>
<p>Any help for this error ? The Preview in browser is working fine. </p>
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<p>What should be the correct procedure deploy this report project on tomcat ? </p>
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<p>What is the procedure to install a .dashboard project on a Production machine ? Pre-requisites ?</p>
<p>Is the Production deployment of Birt Dashboard completely free or does it require a licence ?</p>
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<p>Also is the Birt Reports completely free for commercial purpose ?</p>
<p>I know that BirtReport can be deployed on Tomcat.</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance. </p>

jar

<p>Why show the rptdesign files in a JSP page. If the dashboard was good enough you can make advanced charts, ect in a rptdesign, give them a name (bookmark property) and add them as reportlet on a dashboard?</p>
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<p>Then run that dashboard. (that is how we do it).</p>
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<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Jeroen</p>

Clement Wong

<p>From the error message, referencing ThemesReportItems31.rptlibrary, is an indication that your using the OpenText Analytics Designer, which is a commercial BIRT product.</p>
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org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.DesignParserException (code = Error.DesignParserException.FILE_NOT_FOUND, message : The file "/ThemesReportItems31.rptlibrary" is not found.)
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<p>To deploy commercial BIRT designs/dashboards, you'll need the commercial BIRT server, the Information Hub (iHub).  More information is available @ <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/analytics/opentext-information-hub'>http://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/analytics/opentext-information-hub</a></p&gt;
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<p>There's a 45 day trial @ <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/analytics/opentext-analytics-product-downloads/ihub-trial-edition-download'>http://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/analytics/opentext-analytics-product-downloads/ihub-trial-edition-download</a></p&gt;
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<p>Unfortunately, if you are using commercial BIRT features, you won't be able to deploy using the Open Source BIRT Engine.</p>