Birt report design best practices

Best practices for creating reports(rptdesign files)

1. For the report parameters
Prompt text field and the Help text field
should be filled. Then they are appearing properly when asking for
generating reports.

2. In all the reports (rptdesign files) There should not be "html" content
type for any of the field. They all should be "plain". Other wise those
fields will not be appearing in the csv report files.

3. When designing the reports no of table columns should be same in
all of the tables and the grids used in the reports.

4. Unnessary empty rows in the tables and the grids should be
removed.Otherwise report will be complexed and will not be properly
converted in to other report formats.