Wednesday, May 15, 2013

BIRT 221 INSTALLATION



BIRT 221 INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION


This document provides details on Installation and configuring BIRT Report Designer 221 for the Base Services 7.1.1.5 and future Releases.

Prerequisites:
Before beginning install, make sure a copy of IBM JDK 1.5 (5.0) has been installed locally and BIRT 2.2.1 was used and supported within the MAXIMO V7 Releases.

                                                          JAVA INSTALLATION

Step 1: Accept the license agreement and click on next.



Step 2: Click on next.


Step 3: Installation in progress.


Step 4: Click on next.


Step5: Select the Browser and click on next.
Step 6: Click on finish.




BIRT INSTALLATION
Step 1: Run setup.exe.


Step 2: Select the installation language and click on ok.


Step 3: Click on next.


Step 4: Accept the license agreement and click on next.




Step 5: Select the installation folder and click on next.


Step 6: Review the installation and click on install.

 Step 7: Installation in progress.

 Step 8: Click on done to finish the installation.



BIRT CONFIGURATION
1. Copy com folder and mxreportdatasource.properties from “C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\reports\birt\scriptlibrary\classes.”





2. Create new classes folder to “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.2.1.v20070205-1728\birt\WEB-INF”





3. Paste com folder and mxreportdatasource.properties to “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.2.1.v20070205-1728\birt\WEB-INF\classes”.



4. Copy Opta.jar from “C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\lib” as we are configuring for SQL server.
For Oracle=oraclethin.jar
For SQL Server=opta.jar
For DB2= db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar



5. Paste Opta.jar to “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.2.1.v20070205-1728\birt\WEB-INF\lib”


6. Extract and copy the contents of Opta.jar.





7. Paste the contents of Opta.jar to “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.2.1.v20070205-1728\birt\WEB-INF\classes”.





8. Open maximo.properties from “C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties”.






9. Make the changes in mxreportdatasource.properties refer by maximo.properties.
mxe.db.url=jdbc: inetdae7a: blank-62vrlsn3q.:1433?database=maxdb71&language= us_english&nowarnings =true&mars=false
mxe.db.driver=com.inet.tds.TdsDriver
mxe.db.user=maximo
mxe.db.password=maxadmin
mxe.db.schemaowner=dbo


10. Copy the mxreportdatasource.properties from “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_2.2.1.v20070205-1728\birt\WEB-INF\classes”.



11.  Paste mxreportdatasource.properties to “C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\reports\birt\scriptlibrary\classes”.


12. Create the shortcut of eclipse.exe on the desktop.



13. Open the properties of shortcut.exe by right click on that and change the target as “C:\IBM\BIRTDesigner221\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin\java.exe" –vmargs –Xmx512m”.



14. Path for the java.exe “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin\java.exe”.





15. Open the eclipse.exe and specify the workspace.




 16. Set the Resource folder for the Library Explorer from windowsàpreferences menu in eclipse to C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\reports\birt\libraries.



17. Set the Template folder to C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\reports\birt\templates.

18. Disable the Comment Template.
 A.  If not already open, from the menu, Select Window - Preferences.
B.  Remove the flag from the ‘Generate comment when creating a report design’ field if it is set.


19. First, create a project.  Click File, New Project.  Under Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, select Report Project.  Click Next.

20. Enter a Project Name.  
a. Remove the flag in the ‘Use Default Location’ field.  
b. For the Location Field Value, browse to the location of your maximo V7 Report Source.    “C:\ibm\SMP\maximo\reports\birt\reports”.  
c. Click Finish.



21. Expand the folder and open any rptdesign file.





 Designing a Report in BIRT

1    1. Create a new project using the project creation wizard.



2    2. Provide the Name for your project and Provide the location of existing reports.


3    3. Now we can see the existing folders under navigator.



 4. Create Data Source --> Open the Data Explorer View. Right click on Data Sources and choose "New Data Source".


3    5. Create a Data Set:
    Open the Data Explorer View. Right click on Data Sets and choose "New Data Set"


6. Create a new report.
Fileànewàreport.

5    7. Select the type of report.



      8. Now you can edit the data set by right clicking on the data set and add required attributes to it.







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