How to combine multiple BIRT reports

Question

Currently, we have a whole range of draft reports that cover various parts of our application, and these reports are generated at the request of our users.

I want to be able to combine several of these reports into one report in order to return to the user.

I initially hacked into my own report creator, which created report design files using segments inside the report library file, and then launched the created design, but it was cumbersome and painful to manage, because I had to duplicate separate reports (still required) inside the library file reports. Any changes to the offline reports should have been duplicated in the library for combined reports.

What I'm really looking for is a way to specify multiple design files, run them all, and then return a single file to the user containing all the reports that they selected.

Answer 1

This is a fairly common request that we are working on, but have not yet decided.

One approach that is not ideal for use today is to run each report and then combine the output from each rptdocument. BIRT-exchange has an example of this here for PDF and HTML. The problem is that the pagination will be wrong and the CBT will also not be right.

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