This set of slides is part of the course Data Visualization GE, available on FIWARE platform, whose SpagoBI is the reference implementation. This course aims at offering assistance to create a simple Report with Birt. We drive users from installation to the development of the document through SpagoBI Studio and finally show how the report can be transfered on SpagoBI server.

1. Data Visualization GEri - SpagoBI
Davide Zerbetto, Nunzia Marotta
Engineering
Data Visualization GE Manager, Data Visualization GE Course Creator - FIWARE
davide.zerbetto@eng.it ,nunzia.marotta@eng.it

2. Birt Report Designer
TOPIC OF THE COURSE: the
course aims at offering
assistance to create a simple
Report with Birt. We focused
the attention on crucial steps
from installation to the
development of the document
and finally show how the
report can be transfered on
server.
Birt Report Designer

3. Birt, acronim for Business
Intelligence and Reporting
Tools (check the website
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/)
is a well known reporting tool:
SpagoBIStudio contains its
designer while SpagoBI
Server contains the runtime
engine.
About Birt

4. ➢
SpagoBI Server is the main module of the
SpagoBI suite, offering the core and analytical
functionalities. It provides two conceptual
models (Analytical Model, Behavioural Model),
administration tools and cross-platform
services.
➢
SpagoBI Studio allows the developer to design
and modify analytical documents such as
reports, charts, GEO and cockpits. The
module also supports the deployment phase,
where the analytical documents have to be
tested and released on SpagoBI Server, with
which it interacts through SpagoBI SDK.
FEW MORE
INFORMATION

5. Let's start with SpagoBI Studio.
Double click then on the icon SpagoBI.exe in the folder you just
unzipped if your using Windows or double click on SpagoBI.sh if
your using Linux.
Select the location where you want to create your SpagoBI Studio
workspace and click OK
Execution And Presentation of the Environment

6. Now you can create a new SpagoBI Project (Menu File > New >
SpagoBI Project) or use an existing one

7. Insert the name of your brandnew SpagoBI project and then click
on the Finish button

8. First of all specify the target SpagoBI Server Instance (right click on
server node into resources folder, then select New Server from
contextual menu)

9. Start up your server, then enter the connection parameters and test the
connection. If the test ends successfully click on Finish button to save
it.

10. Now use the right mouse botton to create your first BIRT report.
Simply follow the path Business Analysis > Report > Report with Birt

11. Give it a name and click on Finish button: the document will be
automatically saved under Business Analysis folder.

12. The last step is to change
perspective in order to
start with your report.
Open the Change
Perspective botton and
choose the Report Design
perspective in order to
rearrange the interface
and have all the tools
required to edit the report

13. Now you are ready to implement your first report with BIRT!

14. Birt report designer

15. Set the Data
Source connection
through the Data
Explorer tab and
by right mouse
clicking on the
Data Source item.

16. Select the JDBC Data Source type and give a name to the DataSource

17.  Click on “Manage Drivers”
 Add the mysql Driver by selecting its location on your PC
 Click OK

18.  Fill in the required fields in order to access your DB
 Test the connection to the DB
 Click OK

19. Click now on New Data Set

20. Give a name to your
Data Set
Select the Data Set
Type
Select the Data
Source you created
earlier

21. Create a simple
Query that selects
from the table
“customer” the first
10 customers

22. Preview your results and then click OK

23. Report filling and preview

24. Drag and Drop in your Layout the fields of your DataSet

25. Click on Preview and see the result of your Report

26. If you want to view your Report output in another format just click on
Run > View Report > As.

27. Well Done!
Your first Report is ready!
Well Done!
Your first Report is ready!

28. From SpagoBI Studio to SpagoBI
Server:
deploy your Report

29. Define a new parameter with name
“connectionName” and then edit the datasource
Define a new parameter with name
“connectionName” and then edit the datasource

30. You can easily deploy your report on
the server thanks to the connection
you set earlier.

31. Remember to select a folder of the Functionalities tree in which to store
your report

32. To display the report just click on the icon

33. Here's the outcome!

34. Note that once the report has been deployed its state is set on
Development by default. This means that the report is still not available
to end-users.

35. You can change it by exploring
the Detail button and switch
it to the Release state.

36. We conclude this lesson by inviting the viewer to discover how to set
parameters on report, in order to have a more dynamic statistic to
exhibit and navigate, by watching our dedicated lesson on FIWARE
platform.

37. Thanks!Thanks!