BIRT reports 1: Install BIRT in Eclipse

BIRT sands for Business Intelligent and Reporting Tool which is an Open Source platform for data visualization and reporting. In this post I'm going to explain how to setup BIRT reports in windows Eclipse.

Prerequisites 

1. You should have install java(It requires to have JVM 6 or higher version ) in your PC and set path variable correctly (JAVA_HOME, PATH)

To install you can choose either download All in one Eclipse or You can install BIRT as new plugin. Yo download All in one Eclipse go to BIRT download page and click on Download Now under All-in-One heading. (Figure 1)

Figure 1 : Download required BIRT

If you continue with All-in-One you can select preferred bit version with different operating systems. (Top right corner under Download Links heading) 

If you need to install it as plugin go to BIRT wiki update page and select your Eclipse version and copy URL then on you Eclipse go to Help->Install New Software.. You can see similar interface to Figure 2

Figure 2: Install New Software Interface

On this interface click on Add button (Top right corner) and provide name for the software and URL copied from BIRT wiki update page and then click OK button.

Then You can see similar interface to Figure 3 and on that interface Click on Select All button and click Next. Then continue the installation steps.

Figure 3: Click on Select All button

After successful installation you can go to File->New->Project then select Report Project under Business Intelligent and Reporting Tool. (Figure 4) After that click next and provide appropriate name for project then click Finish. 

Figure 4: Select Report Project

Then lets start to create new report in our new report project. To start go to File->New->Other then select report under Business Intelligent and Reporting Tool and click next.(Figure 5)  In next interface provide report name and click Finish.

Figure 5: Select report under Business Intelligent and Reporting Tool

Then Eclipse will prompt message asking to change the perspective in to Report Design click OK and then you can see interface similar to Figure 6.

Figure 5: Report design interface in Eclipse

On next post I will explain how to design report easily with data set and report designing techniques which can use to develop complex reports.