Saturday, November 04, 2006

BIRT Updates

I finished a new BIRT report that displays information about my DVD collection. I basically cleaned up the formatting to make it look nicer and added some new graphs. There are three pie charts accompanied with data that show how I have ranked my DVDs, what decades they're from, and the different MPAA ratings in my collection. The second page is a list of all of the my DVDs including the year it was released, the MPAA rating, the runtime (in minutes), the date I added the movie to my database, and my personal ranking of the movie.

All of the data is dynamically populated whenever the URL is ran. So, what you see, especially the graphs and total runtime, is calculated on the fly when you run the report. I need to add about 10 DVDs to my database so the data in the report will change when I get around to this.

You can export the data into a CSV file by clicking the following button in the toolbar and choosing the desired columns to export:

You can also convert the report to PDF by clicking the following button in the toolbar:

Also, I upgraded the BIRT Report Viewer to version 2.1.1 on my Tomcat 5.5 application server.

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