Hi all,

Anyone know how to install BIRT to Windows Server 2008? I double click the BIRT.exe from the Infor Reporting Designer folder, it's displayed error "An error has occured. See the log file E:\BIRT\Infor Reporting Designer\Configuration\1316165590652.log"

The log file display errors like:
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.ui.win32 2 0 2011-09-15 01:37:27.945
!MESSAGE Missing host org.eclipse.ui.ide_[3.2.0,4.0.0).
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2 0 2011-09-15 01:37:27.945
!MESSAGE Bundle update@plugins/org.eclipse.update.core.win32_3.2.100.v20080107.jar [190] was not resolved.

I did it successful at Windows XP & 7, how to do it on Server 2008?


Best Regards,
Grace

Hi Grace

Did you installed following pre-requisites:

Tomcat 4.1 or higher installed.
Java 5 or higher.

Logon to you Webtop server, deploy BIRT report viewer Web UI to a servlet container, complete the following steps:

1. Locate the report viewer Web UI Web Archive (.war file).
2. Copy the report viewer.war file to C:\Program Files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat5.5\webapps folder or the tomcat installed folder.
3. Start http://[yourwebserve:port]/ Tomcat Admin page in the browser.
Click on Tomcat Manager, Tomcat Web application manager page will open.
4. Scroll to Deploy section.

Enter Context path: < C:\Program Files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat5.5\webapps\reportviewer>
XML Configuration file URL: <C:\Program Files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat5.5\webapps\reportviewer.xml>
WAR or Directory URL: < C:\Program Files\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Tomcat5.5\webapps\ reportviewer>

Select WAR file to upload: select <report viewer.war> file.

And click deploy, this will deploy report viewer on to the server, restart the apache tomcat.

BIRT Report viewer Configuration


1. Open Webtop administration console, open http://[yourwebserver:port]/webtop/servlet/admin in the browser, enter WebTop admin username and password.
2. Click on Infor ERP, Click Report Viewer

Enter following information.
Hostname : <hostname of the server>
Http port number : <port>
https port number : <port>
Virtual directory : <report viewer>

Click Submit and Sign out of the page.

3. Define the BIRT_TEMP variable. Specify a "BIRT_TEMP" environment variable that points to a directory where the Report Viewer can store its temporary files.


Reporting Studio Installation and Configuration

Runs on, MS Windows 32-bit platform (XP\Win7 or Vista)
Java 5 (32 bit)

The report studio will be installed on developer’s PC ie client machine.

1. Copy Reporting Studio.zip file from ERP LN Studio media on to the client PC.
2. Create an installation directory ie C:\Infor\ERPLN\ReportingStudio.
3. Unzip the reportingstudio.zip file in the above directory.
4. It will create an eclipse directory in the above directory.
5. Open eclipse directory, create a shortcut of the eclipse.exe file on the desktop and rename it to Reporting Studio.

Reporting Studio Configuration
1. Start the Reporting Studio.
2. Select a workspace dialog box appears, enter your desired directory where you want to store you work, by default it will store the data in its default directory.

Set ERPLN DB connection under preferences to connect to the ERPLN server.

Hope this will help you out.

All the best

Virendra

Hi Virendra,

Thanks your infomation.

The Windows Server 2008 I mentioned is Infor Reporting server, not Web UI Server. Because I had the problem of the connectivity from BIRT (Windows->Preferences->Infor ERP LN Connectivity Preferences->erplndesigner) with error message "Ping failed: Connection creation failed - createManagedConnection failed - Communication failure", that's why I need to install BIRT at Infor Reporting Server to test is there any connection problem?

At the Infor Reporting Server (Win Server 2008), there is no Worktop & BW install. I did tried to install it, but failed. Could I know how to do it? Does it affect of BIRT installation if there is no Worktop & BW?

URGENT, PLS HELP.

Best Regards,
Grace

Hi Grace

The possible reasons for connectivity could be-

1. Firewall
2. The port may be blocked

Ping your Infor reporting server from your application server and visa versa to check the connectivity between them.

There is no need to install BW or worktop on the reporting server but you should be able to install it on your reporting server if the network is same and no connectivity issues, possible reasons may be again that your reporting server is not able to find the application server.

Hope this will help you out.

Regards
Virendra Pal Singh

Hi Virender,

I can ping from Infor Reporting server & my own pc, there is no connectivity issue. The connection failed error appears [BIRT (Windows->Preferences->Infor ERP LN Connectivity Preferences->erplndesigner) with error message "Ping failed: Connection creation failed - createManagedConnection failed - Communication failure"] when I do it at my own pc.

Regards,
Grace