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What are Information Objects anyway?

BIRT Report Studio allows end users the ability to create and run their own reports over the web, whilst retaining data access under the control of IT. Here I look at how to create data information objects that present a unified and normalized view of your data to the end users.  This is the first part of a two part report, in part two I will be looking at exactly how end users can create their own reports. Here is a list of topics covered...

Multiple System reporting

Clean Data Views

End User Web Based Report design

What to download

Using iServerExpress

Installing into Tomcat

Creating an information object

Create a Data Connection Definition

Publish the Information Object

Connecting the report to the Information Object

Renaming & Deleting Database Fields

Filtering and Grouping

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