Executing BIRT Reports against Demo-Data

Demo data has been created for most of the Facts and Dimensions in the Datamart. This means that it can be used to test if the BIRT Reports are correctly displaying data without having to set up and load the Data Warehouse first.

You need to build the datamart demo data schema, populate it with our demo data, and then point the Reports at it before they can be executed.

Installation of a vendor database, i.e. DB2 or Oracle, is required before starting below steps.(Refer Sec - 6.8 for DB2 and Sec - 6.9 for Oracle Installations.)

The following steps describe how to setup our data-mart and demo-data.

1. Ensure the Demo-Data schema has been created on your database
2. Ensure the Demo-Data schema name matches the name specified in the BIBootstrap.properties file. Also ensure the connection details are specified correctly in the file.
3. Run the command init at..\Reporting\components in dos prompt (Refer Appendix C).
4. Run the command build database.datamarts.demodata at..\Reporting\components in dos prompt(Refer Appendix C).

The following steps describe how to execute a report:

1. To execute BIRT reports against demo data you need to configure your data source to point to the datamart demo data schema. See the BIRT Developer Guide for the steps for creating a data source.