Read this first when you install BIRT

BIRT is great, but there is just one... annoying... thing... that no one seems to talk about.

You install BIRT, open the report perspective, create an element... and then HOW THE $!()#$ DO YOU EDIT IT'S PROPERTIES?

It's not the properties tab-- BIRT has a special properties tab. Here's how to load it up (and why oh why is this missing from the default report perspective?)

Window->Show View->Other...->Report Design>Property Editor

Now all of a sudden you have control over each element including adding hyperlinks. Whew!