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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

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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

Summary


After finishing this chapter, we should be able to correctly configure the PRD work environment. We have installed JDK and configured the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables.

We have downloaded PRD 5.0 from SourceForge.net in accordance with our operating system, and learned about the pattern of names for various packages. For example, the prd-ce-[version].tar.gz package corresponds to the Linux-type operating systems and the prd-ce-[version].zip package corresponds to Windows operating systems.

Next, we installed PRD, unzipping the respective package, and explained that the path where we should place the JDBC drives is [PRD_HOME]/lib/jdbc. We also edited the [PRD_HOME]/report-designer.[sh|bat] file in order to explain how to assign RAM to the PRD execution environment.

We explained that the reports in this book are based on the example database, Sakila DB. This database stores information about a video rental store: movies, rentals, payments, and so on.

We also explained how to...

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