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The Weave BIRT plugin will look in the Weave workspace directory for report designs by default but it's recommended that you place report designs in a sub folder of the workspace directory, in this case the reports directory, to keep the workspace directory clean and organized. |
If you the click the Next button you'll be presented with a screen that allows you to choose a starting template to use for the report. Generally the Blank Report is a suitable starting point. Note however that it
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The Blank Report template does include the current date as part of the Master Page, so it's not entirely blank. |
For this sample I'll just add a simple text box to the report since the intent here is to show how to create a BIRT report design, not how to generate a full blown BIRT report.
Once this report is saved the design file will then be available in the ...\weave\platform\workspace\reports directory and should be ready to register in Weave.
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Then when we refresh the client the new report should appear in the Report view
and if we generate the report (in this case as HTML) we should get the following output
And that's the basics of how to get a BIRT report into Weave.