Installation and Configuration

For the following guide, this configuration will be used:

Valuemation Web server address - 'http://192.168.1.105:8080/vmweb/vmweb' (Birt Report Server)

BIRT Runtime
‑Windows - 'C:\birt-runtime-osgi-4_2_1\'
‑Linux - '/usr/local/birt-runtime-osgi-4_2_1/'

Installation

• Install Valuemation web server on an application server (Valuemation Web)
  ('http://127.0.0.1:8080/vmweb/vmweb' on Tomcat server in this guide)
• Install a BIRT OSGI Report Runtime - used for rendering reports. It can be downloaded from the internet site http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/
  Note: Installation path must not contain spaces! Let’s use
  'C:\birt-runtime-osgi-4_2_1' folder (Windows) or
  '/usr/local/birt-runtime-osgi-4_2_1/' folder (Linux) in this guide.
• The BIRT Report Server must point to the same database as the clients.
• Configure Rich client in order to be able to assign the newly created reports to object types.
• BIRT Designer - used to design reports

  Download the BIRT Designer from the internet site and unzip it.

Note: The BIRT OSGI Runtime version must be compatible with the BIRT Report Designer version used to design your BIRT Reports.