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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

Chapter 3. Start PRD and the User Interface (UI) Layout

In the last chapter, we installed and configured Pentaho Report Designer (PRD). Now it's time to execute PRD and begin to familiarize ourselves with the user interface (UI).

In this chapter we will see:

  • How to start PRD in different operating systems

  • An explanation of the layout of the PRD UI

  • The use and the goal of each area within the UI of PRD, for example, the Work area, the Insertable objects, the Report tree structure, Style and Attributes, the Data panel, the Menu bar, and so on

We will present each part of the PRD layout through screenshots and provide details about the most important buttons and options. We hope that by the end of the chapter, you will have a fairly clear idea of the structure of the PRD UI and its different functions so that in the following chapter, when we make our first report, it will not be difficult to follow the steps described.

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