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4. From the Dialog screen, select Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
from the list of folders; expand that view, and select Report Project. Then
click on the Next button.
5. For the Project name, enter Class_Cars_BIRT_Reports. You can either
leave the Use Default Location checkbox checked, or uncheck it and enter a
location on your local drive to store this report project.
The BIRT Environment and Your First Report
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Now, we have a very simple report project in which to store our BIRT reports that
we will build in the first few chapters of the book.
Creating a Simple Report
Now that we have our first project open, we will look at creating our first report.
As mentioned earlier, we will create a basic listing report that will display all the
information in the employees table. In order to do this, we will use the following steps:
1. Right-click on the Class_Cars_BIRT_Reports project under the Navigator,
and choose New and Report.
2. Make sure the Class_Cars_BIRT_Reports project is highlighted in the new
report Dialog, and enter in the name as EmployeeList.rptdesign. I chose
this name as it is somewhat descriptive of the purpose of the report, which
is to display a list of employees. As a rule of thumb, always try to name
your reports after the expected output, such as QuarterlyEarningReport.
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