Summary
In this chapter, you have walked all the way through a complete reporting example, with step-by-step instructions on how to create a Pentaho report with your preferred layout. You started off learning how to install Pentaho Report Designer together with the SampleData
schema on a HyperSQL database, used to train and experiment Pentaho Reporting's features. Hopefully, you installed Pentaho Report Designer into your laptop, because it will be used along with all the exercises of this book.
After the installation, you moved the first step with the user interface and you walked through the creation of a report using the easy wizard available in Report Designer. After completing the task, you learned how to preview it and how to toggle between design and preview mode, as best practice in report development. To complete the report's life cycle, you saw how to save it into the file system for future use and safe storing. Last but not the least, you saw how to open the report again, to start...