Summary
In this chapter, you have walked through an advanced use of Pentaho Report Designer, starting from a blank report and learning how to develop a Pentaho report from scratch, not using the Report Design Wizard. The manual creation of a Pentaho report gave you the opportunity to see in action all the features (basic and advanced) of the Pentaho Report Designer.
As experienced in the previous chapters, the description has been driven by practical examples and a step-by-step approach to the tasks. At the end of the chapter, you saw how to develop a very simple report with an easy layout (report_01.prpt
), and a complex report with a nice header, footer, grouping of details, and also a chart (report_02.prpt
). In the last (but not the least) topic, you were introduced to a preview of the reports in all the available formats, with some highlights on the relation between the development and the final format.
This chapter is again written as a tutorial for developers and information technologists...