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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162247
Pages 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What is Pentaho Report Designer? 2. Installation and Configuration 3. Start PRD and the User Interface (UI) Layout 4. Instant Gratification – Creating Your First Report with PRD 5. Adding a Relational Data Source 6. Adding Groups 7. Adding Parameters 8. Using Formulas in Our Reports 9. Adding Charts 10. Adding Subreports 11. Publishing and Running Reports in Pentaho BA Server 12. Making a Difference – Reports with Hyperlinks and Sparklines 13. Environment Variables, Stylesheets, and Crosstabs 14. PRD Reports Embedded in Web Applications Sakila DB Data Dictionary Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – configuration of libraries and the PRD report


We are going to copy PRD libraries into our project. We will then create a new folder within our project and copy a PRD report inside it. Finally, we will modify the connection type of this report so that it utilizes JNDI.

  1. We will copy the libraries that compose PRD's Application Programming Interface (API) into our project.

  2. Head to the lib folder in PRD_HOME], select every file in there, and copy it with Ctrl + C; then in Eclipse, select the node named prd5ch14 by going to WebContent | WEB-INF | lib and paste the copied files in there by pressing Ctrl + V.

    Note

    Many of the libraries we just copied are not really necessary for the execution of this chapter's PRD report, but we decided not to add complexity to this stage by choosing them one by one; that is why we are instructing you to copy all of them indiscriminately.

  3. From the bulk of libraries we just copied into our project, select the one named jsp-api-2.0.jar and delete it...

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