BIRT Report Selection Page

Question

I've set up a BIRT report server and have developed several reports for it. The reports work and all, but I haven't figured out a way to simply display a list of reports available so that a user can select one to run.

Right now, I've gotta give people a direct link to each report, but as more get developed, that'll become less and less tenable. I see index.html, which just links over to BIRT's sample report. I feel like that page should simply list all reports.

Does this functionality already exist, or must I create it? If it's in my hands, have others solved this already, and are there solutions that I can reference/adopt?

Answer 1

Maybe you can use a BIRT report to generate the list of links? This report, let's call it "index.rptdesign", could use a Scripted Data Set generated from the directory listing. Furthermore, it could use the DE API to read the properties of the individual reports (comments, title, author, you name it...).