Finally, this is the place where you will manage your Report Parameters, which the
report consumer will use to interact and pass in data to your report for processing.
New in BIRT version 2.2 is the ability to manage Cubes, which we will cover later
on in this book. This option did not exist in the previous versions of BIRT.
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It is important to note that this is not the only place where you can manage your
data-related objects. You can also manage these items from your report outline. This
gives you a little bit of flexibility depending on which views you may have opened.
Property Editor
Now with any visual development IDE, you have the ability to change and
manipulate various properties for visual components. BIRT provides this
ability through the Property Editor. Things that you would expect such as font
attributes??”like size and weighting, alignment, and color??”are available through the
Property Editor. But there are other features of the Property Editor such as value
formatting, hyperlinking, Table of Contents entries for online reports, element to
data binding, the ability to set conditional visual properties known as highlights, and
enumerated value replacements called Maps??”all available from the Property Editor.
For example, let's say I was doing a financial report.
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