I wrapped up a week long trip to one of our plants to conduct a year end physical count. One change this year has been a request to update the final adjustment summary report. It was requested that our year end reports be an electronic report generated with all the …

I was recently asked the following:

I'm starting to learn BIRT and have recently taken over report writing at my company. I'm confused about the best way to pass information to a sub-report. I've looked at some of our existing reports and they don't do it the same way.

I …

IBM recently posted a KB doc on unbound parameters in BIRT rreport. The gist of the KB doc was this:

There is a subtle difference in the way bound vs unbound parameters are used in reports. For bound parameters, if you select a value from the lookup you will see …

In a previous post on How to schedule a date parameter report, I included in a footnote on the example report I used that the report would be classified as a Type 3 report.

5. This report fits the Type 3 definition (see pg 28), so make sure to check …

One of the challenges I typically have when creating new reports is making sure it can be used as many ways as possible. One of the toughest is giving a report the flexibility for a date range selection but also being able to use it as a scheduled report. This …