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Bug 201499

Summary:	Report Designer Usability Improvements in BIRT 2.3
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Krishna Venkatraman <kvenkatraman>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Zhiqiang Qian <zqian>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	foxm, volume4.schalk, zqian
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	2.3.0 RC1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Krishna Venkatraman

2007-08-28 22:52:44 EDT

As increasing numbers of report developers adopt BIRT, usability becomes critical to the wide adoption of BIRT. This project will study areas for improvement with the report designer and propose improvements. Some possible areas of improvement include the expression builder, the aggregation builder, and the crosstab editor.

Comment 1 Mike Fox

2007-09-25 08:34:54 EDT

I have quite a bit of input on usabilty issues that I have sent to the PMC.  I would like to work with the owner of this case to help decide what can be done in V2.3.

Mike Fox  (foxm@us.ibm.com)
BIRT PMC

Comment 2 Schalk Neethling

2008-04-16 04:24:15 EDT

Scrolling of the design interface should be a setting under preferences that can be turned on or off. On machines with even 2 Gig of RAM I have seen this feature cause enormous problems to the point where people seriously considered switching to a completely new Reporting framework.

Comment 3 Zhiqiang Qian

2008-04-23 04:28:01 EDT

Several usability enhancement is scheduled to next milestone, this bug is kept open to track them.

Comment 4 Zhiqiang Qian

2008-05-11 21:50:55 EDT

Mark as fixed.