Generate birt reports from Jira

[Michael Danielsson]

Hi

Is it possible to generate Birt reports from Jira without using a commercial plugin?

Regards,

Michael Danielsson

[mlassau_atlassian · Accepted solution]

JIRA does not support this out of the box.

If you don't want to use a commercial plugin, you would need to find an open source plugin, or build your own.

[Pablo Beltran]

Michael,

By using Birt you can access to the JIRA REST API or the legacy database to make reports. You can use the Eclipse Birt Report Design tool to create the reports visually and then deploy them on Tomcat with the Birt Report Runtime. Then you can integrate the report urls in JIRA via gadget, for instance.

The approach mentioned above is nicely supported by the Valianty's Power Report add-on (commercial) which is basically a gadget to integrate such remote Birt reports in JIRA dashboards.

If you need a more advanced integration of Birt with JIRA then there is another commercial add-on: Birt Reports for JIRA which deploys BIrt right inside JIRA and therefore it resolves out-of-the-box all the security issues to control accessing to the Birt report urls. furthermore it brings all the benefits of running both applications together on the same user's context, etc.

Hope this helps,

Pablo.

[Gregory Kneller]

You could view the reports using birt viewer or birt designer from Eclipse, or access the viewer location using html gadgets. Birt itself needs only database connection to JIRA database.