BIRT Reporting

You use BIRT Reporting for report presentations. BIRT Reporting uses the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) application and an IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities plug-in for the BIRT application. Form reports show the contents of a single record. Query reports show multi-record reports.

The BIRT application layout is grid-based, and every element must exist in an element of the BIRT layout grid. Grid layouts align report elements onto lines, align elements vertically into columns, and size the columns to fit the contents. You can use grids to create a report by dragging elements into the report design.

Important: You must follow BIRT and Maximo Real Estate and Facilities reporting guidelines and consider memory allocations if you run complex reports. The Java heap size is a critical parameter when you design, build, and run reports.

Before you can develop BIRT reports for an Maximo Real Estate and Facilities application, you must install the BIRT Report Designer and configure it to work with Maximo Real Estate and Facilities.