CiviReport Overview

CiviReport is a set of sample reports for CiviCRM built on an open-sourced reporting engine called BIRT (Business Information Reporting Tool). The reports use SQL queries to interact with your CiviCRM database. There is (as of yet) no application or code-level integration between BIRT and CiviCRM. The report files are BIRT-formatted XML files which are developed using BIRT's Report Designer and "run" using BIRT's runtime engine.

BIRT reports can be run from an Eclipse installation running on a desktop computer with access to a copy of your CiviCRM database. They can also be run as web-accessible reports using the BIRT runtime under a Tomcat server. Check out the Installing BIRT section for more info.

The Sample Reports included in CiviCRM 1.8 should be useful for many organizations. In addition we expect that folks will extend them and create many new reports to meet their reporting needs. You can look for and post new and improved report files on the Contributed Reports page.