In the next chapter, we will wrap up with a practical series of reports around the
Bugzilla platform. We will go over how to create a project and reports from the
ground up.
Practical Example??”
Building Reports for Bugzilla
We have seen all the components for building reports with BIRT. By this time,
you should be familiar with how to navigate the Eclipse BIRT Report Designer
perspective, how to insert components into reports, creating data connections and
Data Sets based on queries, Scripting, and various other topics related to BIRT.
As mentioned in the beginning, we are going to look at a practical example for
building a reporting site. In this chapter, we are going to look at a scenario where
we have a Bugzilla instance set up with a series of bugs related to BIRT. We are
going to look at a series of requirements, and build the reports necessary to fulfil
those requirements.
The Environment
In this set up, we are utilizing a Bugzilla 2.22.1 instance set up on Ubuntu 7.10
(Gutsy Gibbon). Bugzilla has been set up to run under Apache, and is connected to a
MySQL 5.0 database.
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There is a single product, called BIRT Book. Under this product there are several
components, as illustrated in the following image:
Requirements
Although we haven't talked about it much, the most important thing to have??”prior
to building reports??”is the requirements.
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