This procedure explains how to install
BIRT Report Designer from your
Silk Central installation. By installing BIRT this way, all necessary configurations for
Silk Central are done automatically.
To install BIRT from
Silk Central:
Ensure that your system uses a 64bit Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The
BIRT Report Designer will not work on a system that uses a 32bit JDK or JRE.
Navigate to
Help
> Tools.
Click the
BIRT RCP Report Designer link.
After downloading the compressed installer package to your local system, extract the compressed files to a directory on your
system, for example
C:\BIRT.
Note: If you encounter an error when extracting the installer files using Windows compressed folder functionality, use an extraction
tool instead, for example WinZip or WinRAR, to extract the files.
Start
BIRT.exe from the directory you extracted the files to.