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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
Profile icon 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


We created a copy of the report 05_Adding_Groups.prpt and modified its layout.

We explained what a hyperlink is, how to use it, and what it is used for. We talked about the different types of hyperlinks that can be created in PRD. We detailed the interaction between PRD and the Pentaho BA Server when using hyperlinks.

We created a hyperlink on a text-field that returns the value of the field country. We configured this hyperlink to open the report 13_Adding_Subreports.prpt and passed it the desired country as a parameter.

We explained how and where the information related to Hyperlinks is saved and analyzed the DRILLDOWN function.

We added a subreport to the Report Header Section and configured it and added a pie chart to it. We configured a hyperlink on this pie chart, so that clicking on each portion of the pie chart shows the report 09_Using_Formulas.prpt filtered by the value of the selected portion.

We explained what sparklines are and what they are used for. We explained the characteristics...

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