Report Design perspective

Report Design perspective is a group of views and editors that allows creating data visualizations and fully-fledged interactive business reports.

Report Design perspective contains the tools needed for creating a report from scratch. As a result, you get a standard BIRT XML report file that can be deployed with the BIRT engine.

Report Design perspective includes 8 views and an editor:

	Palette →	contains standard report items you can add to your report by dragging and dropping
	Data Explorer →	shows data sources, data sets, and report parameters
	Resource Explorer →	allows viewing all the libraries within the resource folder
	Navigator →	allows navigating through your projects
	Outline →	allows exploring the structure of your report
	Property Editor →	allows changing appearance of the report items
	Problems →	displays warnings and errors encountered when building a project together with their relevant information (like resources, paths, and locations, etc.)
	Error Log →	captures warnings and errors logged by plug-ins
	Report Design Editor →	allows creating the BIRT reports and data visualizations, allows viewing the current report in Layout, Master Page, Script and XML Source layouts

When you open the Report Design perspective, the following views open automatically:

• Palette, Data Explorer, Resource Explorer, Navigator, Outline views and Property Editor are the views associated immediately with this perspective,
• Problems and Error Log are the general views.

The contents of the views associated with the Report Design perspective depends on the report that is currently active in the editor.

Here you can find out how to open and manipulate perspectives.

Here you can find out how to open and manipulate views.