Modifying reports with data set changes

Use the Document Manager to check out the report file, change the report file, and check in the report file.

Procedure

  1. Generate a starter report that is based on the same model that you used for the existing BIRT report.
  2. Do one of the following options:
    Options Modifying reports with data set changes
    Select updates from script-data-set elements Select the updates to include from the script-data-set elements in the current BIRT report and in the new .rtpdesign file.
    Replace the script-data-set elements Replace the script-data-set elements of the current .rptdesign file with the new script-data-set elements that are generated in the new .rptdesign file. Import the starter report into a project, copy the data set from the new starter report, and paste it in the data sets of the existing .rptdesign file.

What to do next

If you add fields or user filters to the IBM® TRIRIGA® query, you must also change the report. After you update the data set, if that data set is used to join inside BIRT, you must rejoin the data set, and rebind the elements in the BIRT report that references that data set.