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birt world skip to main skip to sidebar birt world the eclipse business intelligence and reporting tools project is an open source project focused on the development and delivery of framework tools for reporting and business intelligence within the eclipse platform monday february 23 2015 open source reporting comparison birt jasper pentaho third edition innovent solutions has performed periodic comparisons of the reporting portion of eclipse birt jaspersoft and pentaho starting in 2010 with an update in 2012 in 2015 we have decided to revisit the reporting products to evaluate what has changed and to update our comparison to see the full review please visit our website to read the articles overview comparison matrix birt review tibco jaspersoft studio review pentaho report designer review posted by anonymous at 12 07 pm 7 comments tuesday february 12 2013 birt sorting birt provides sorting capabilities on many report items including tables lists cross tabs charts and groups sorting is configured using a sort key expression the expression is usually tied to data that is returned in a birt data set in addition to supporting sort direction birt also supports locale specific sorting and sort strength the expression is entered at various locations in the designer and depends on what report item is being sorted for cross tabs lists and tables the sorting expression can be entered in the property view under the sorting tab the sorting expression for charts is defined in the select data tab of the chart wizard next to the expression for the category or optional grouping expression group sorting is defined in the group editor if your birt report uses a grouped table by default the group will be sorted by your key expression in some cases this may not be desirable specifically when the data is pre sorted in the order you want it to appear birt provides an advanced property to turn this behavior off you can access this property sort by groups in the advanced table of the property editor after selecting the table when sorting groups tables lists and crosstabs birt supports multiple expressions and the data will be sorted using the first expression followed by subsequent expressions while most sort expressions are quite simple it is possible to create a custom sort order using a more complicated expression expressions can multi lined use report parameters and even call out to external classes the following multi line sort expression returns the third order line number first in the custom sort var ol row orderlinenumber if ol 3 1 else if ol 1 2 else if ol 2 3 else if ol 4 4 sort expressions can also be created and applied in a birt javascript event handler for example the following beforefactory script adds a sort expression to a table group importpackage packages org eclipse birt report model api importpackage packages org eclipse birt report model api elements importpackage packages java util importpackage packages com ibm icu util name your table tbl reportcontext getdesignhandle findelement mytable var lc new ulocale reportcontext getlocale sc structurefactory createsortkey sc setkey row params sorton value sc setdirection params sortorder value sc setlocale lc var tblgroup tbl getgroups get 0 to put the sort on the table use the table handle instead of the group handle ph tblgroup getpropertyhandle tablehandle sort_prop ph additem sc the examples shown in this post are available at birt exchange posted by jason weathersby at 1 36 pm 22 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom brought to you by enabling intelligent decisions labels charts 10 fonts 1 format 1 scripts 25 birt for your product case study about using birt as embedded reporting platform resources subscribe to birt world blog archive 2015 1 february 1 open source reporting comparison birt jasper pen 2013 1 february 1 2012 13 december 1 october 1 september 2 july 1 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 january 1 2011 14 october 1 august 2 july 3 june 1 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 january 2 2010 31 december 1 november 1 october 2 september 4 august 4 july 4 june 3 may 2 april 1 march 2 february 4 january 3 2009 25 december 4 november 4 october 1 september 2 august 2 july 1 june 2 may 2 april 3 march 3 january 1 2008 31 december 1 november 4 october 2 september 2 august 1 june 2 may 5 april 7 march 4 february 2 january 1 2007 31 november 2 october 4 september 1 july 2 june 2 may 2 april 7 march 5 february 4 january 2 2006 36 december 2 november 2 october 3 september 1 august 1 july 2 june 1 may 2 april 3 march 9 february 2 january 8 2005 19 december 3 november 5 october 6 september 4 july 1 links birt home page birt newsgroup birt exchange community site business intelligence data visualization software open source bi saas business intelligence