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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

You're reading from   Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook Over 50 recipes to learn how to use Pentaho Analytics and MongoDB to create powerful analysis and reporting solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783553273
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. PDI and MongoDB FREE CHAPTER 2. The Thin Kettle JDBC Driver 3. Pentaho Instaview 4. A MongoDB OLAP Schema 5. Pentaho Reporting 6. The Pentaho BI Server 7. Pentaho Dashboards 8. Pentaho Community Contributions Index

Connecting to MongoDB using Reporting Wizard

In this recipe, we will guide you through the steps required to simply get data in the quickest fashion from MongoDB using a feature of the Pentaho Report Designer called the Report Designer Wizard. This wizard helps us to define our connection to the MongoDB data source, as well as to define a query that is to be executed to get data into our report.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, you first need to start the MongoDB server with the same database as in the last chapter. You will also want to start the Pentaho Report Designer.

The Pentaho Report Designer is started in Windows as follows:

This can be done via the Windows Start menu by navigating to Start | All Programs | Pentaho Enterprise Edition | Design Tools | Report Designer and then by clicking on the report designer icon.

The Pentaho Report Designer is started in Linux as follows:

Open up a terminal and navigate to the PentahoEE/design-tools/report-designer folder. Execute the report...

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