Managing reports : Accessing reports : Working with files

Working with files

Using the default display settings, files appear in the following categories:

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Documents You Can View. When you choose a file from Documents You Can View, Deployment Kit opens it for viewing. For information about operations you can perform while viewing a report, see Viewing BIRT Reports.
You use Microsoft Excel to view spreadsheet reports. Spreadsheet reports that require view-time parameters request them before you view the report document.
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Reports You Can Run. When you choose a file from Reports You Can Run, Deployment Kit displays a page for submitting a run request.

The document pages that display folder contents show these files in separate sections. Depending on which files you can access, you see some, all, or none of these categories.

From the document pages, you can perform the following additional file operations:

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Table 2-1 lists the available default set of file types.

Table 2-1  Deployment Kit file types