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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 – adding groups


If we preview our report, we will be able to see the following:

However, if we compare these results with the ones obtained by MySQL, we will note that the PRD groups are not being created properly.

As we can see, the highlighted customers appearing in our report belong only to Canada; that is, our report is showing incorrect results.

In order for the groups to be correctly formed, we need to go to the Structure tab, navigate to Master Report | Group, select it, and modify the following:

  • Attributes.group = [country_id]

  • Attributes.name = GroupCountry

What we just did was indicated to PRD that the groups should be formed by these registries, which share the same country_id values. We could have put just country instead of country_id, but it is much more efficient to use fields of a numeric nature. With respect to GroupCountry, it is the name by which this group will be referenced in our report.

Note

PRD supports adding one or more grouping criteria, but in our case...

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