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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

Time for action – exporting in different formats


Next, we will see how to present the report we just created by exporting it to different formats:

  1. Press on the icon found in the shortcut bar. In this case, we choose PDF:
  2. Now press on the icon and choose HTML:
  3. Press on the icon and choose Excel (or Excel 2007).

What just happened?

We exported our report to different formats, that is, to PDF, HTML, and Excel/Excel 2007.

Have a go hero

Now that we have made our first report, it is time for you to put into practice what we have been learning. We propose that you make some small modifications to the 01_Hello_World.prpt report so that it looks as follows:

The steps you should perform, broadly speaking, are as follows:

  1. Save the report with the name 01_Hello_World_Plus.prpt.

  2. Edit the ZoneProductQty data set, adding the Type column with its corresponding values.

  3. Create a function that returns the average of the quantities sold, that is, that calculates it based on the Quantity field.

Pop Quiz – data...

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