Because my company use birt , and we need excel output.
Birt emitter is ok , but it doesn't support binary output nor 2007 format.
This was ok with excel 2003 , but with the introduction of Excel 2007 every time I open a fake .xls file , it give me a warn about the incorrect file format (xml instead binary).
So later we tried tribix , but we abandoned it soon because of the poor performances (memory and cpu) , at least in Tribix for 2.2.2 series (we use birt 2.2.2).
So I've started a new excel emitter project with this goals :
1) Native output
1.a) binary for 2003
1.b) Microsoft Office Xml for 2007 and uppers
2) Performance comparable to prototype xls emitter
3) Layout not cluttered : compromise between wysiwyg and usability , a xls is not for print only , i should pivot and work easily on the data.
4) Image support
5) Page break pagination support
Currently IceTrack supports 1.a,2,3,4,5
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now i also meet such the issue that the excel output of birt is not formatted as MS XLS format.. and i'm interesting with your ice track jar.. but i can't any documents and api for it. could u please let me know more??
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HEllo , I apologize for the latency of my response.
Actually I've released only an emitter for birt 2.2.2 versions , and it works well.
The emitter isn't compatible with birt 2.3.2 , I think , and in the near futur I'll develop versions also for birt older than 2.2.2.
I'll also release some documentation for install and deploy it .
In the simplest case , you should only place the jar file in the birt plugins directory.
At the next start ,xls extension should be visible. (you can also try this with birt rcp designer)
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Because my company use birt , and we need excel output.
Birt emitter is ok , but it doesn't support binary output nor 2007 format.
This was ok with excel 2003 , but with the introduction of Excel 2007 every time I open a fake .xls file , it give me a warn about the incorrect file format (xml instead binary).
So later we tried tribix , but we abandoned it soon because of the poor performances (memory and cpu) , at least in Tribix for 2.2.2 series (we use birt 2.2.2).
So I've started a new excel emitter project with this goals :
1) Native output
1.a) binary for 2003
1.b) Microsoft Office Xml for 2007 and uppers
2) Performance comparable to prototype xls emitter
3) Layout not cluttered : compromise between wysiwyg and usability , a xls is not for print only , i should pivot and work easily on the data.
4) Image support
5) Page break pagination support
Currently IceTrack supports 1.a,2,3,4,5
Hello Lai,
now i also meet such the issue that the excel output of birt is not formatted as MS XLS format.. and i'm interesting with your ice track jar.. but i can't any documents and api for it. could u please let me know more??
Many Thanks…
HEllo , I apologize for the latency of my response.
Actually I've released only an emitter for birt 2.2.2 versions , and it works well.
The emitter isn't compatible with birt 2.3.2 , I think , and in the near futur I'll develop versions also for birt older than 2.2.2.
I'll also release some documentation for install and deploy it .
In the simplest case , you should only place the jar file in the birt plugins directory.
At the next start ,xls extension should be visible. (you can also try this with birt rcp designer)