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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


In this chapter, we created a copy of the report we used in the previous chapter and configured it to perform customer groupings according to the country to which they belong.

We modified the query of our data set so that we could obtain data in a way more easily suited for the group example. We then modified the layout of our report so that it applied to the one presented in this guide. During the recreation of this layout, we had to move an object downwards in the positioning hierarchy.

We configured the Attributes.group value of the Group section and created groups based on their country_id fields. We also configured the Style.pagebreak-after value of this group so that each new group begins on a different page.

We modified the Reset on Group Name value of the functions so that they perform their calculations by group.

Finally, in order to strengthen the knowledge acquired, we proposed the creation of a new report from the ground up.

In the next chapter, we will explain how to create...

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