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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

Time for action – configuring the layout


We will now modify the layout of our report so that it looks like the following:

We will modify the Report Header, Group Header, Details Header, Details, and Details Footer sections.

  1. In the Report Header section, we will insert a label to serve as the title, containing the text Adding Groups.

  2. In the Group Header section, we will delete the label we were previously using as the title and put a label containing the text Country:. We will also diminish this object's length and place a text field to its right. We will set the Attributes.field value of this newly added text field to country. In PRD, overlapping objects might not be shown correctly in the final report; this is why we adjusted the label's length. When an overlap between objects exists, PRD colors them red to alert us. However, there are some objects that can overlap, such as rectangle, ellipse, horizontal line, and vertical line.

  3. We will now add a rectangle to the Group Header section. We do...

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