You
can design your own report templates or modify existing templates
using BIRT, an Eclipse-based reporting system.
Create a project.
In that project, create a Report Design.
From the Data Explorer view, create
a new Data Source, and select Jazz Data Source.
In the New Jazz Data Source window,
enter the Jazz repository, choose a snapshot relevant to the content
of the report template that you want to create, then select or enter
a project area. The values that you enter in this window
are not permanent associations. Once you have finished creating the
report template, you can add it to any server or project.
From the Data Explorer view, create
a new Data Set, and select the Jazz Data Source.
In the New Jazz Data Set window, select
a table name from the list. The available columns and parameters for
that table are populated below.
Check one or more columns. The columns that you select
here are available to report elements for inclusion in the report.
Check one or more parameters. You may bind these data set
parameters directly to Report parameters, or provide some hard-coded
default values for them. These values and bindings are specified in
the Parameters page of the Data Set editor.
Finish creating the report design and save it. BIRT
reports are saved with the extension .rptdesign in
the BIRT project that you created.
What to do next
Once you are finished editing a report design, you can add
it to the list of templates in a Jazz project or you can update an
existing template.