You're reading from Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide Learn to use the power of Pentaho for Business Intelligence reporting in a series of simple, logical stages. From installation in Windows or Linux right through to publishing your own Java web application, it's all here.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162247

Length 342 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Pentaho

Concepts

Data Processing

Author (1):

Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Pentaho Report Designer? FREE CHAPTER

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

A. Sakila DB Data Dictionary

B. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Chapter 2. Installation and Configuration

In this chapter we will look at the system requirements to be able to correctly execute the Pentaho Report Designer (PRD), and we will explain how to meet these requirements step-by-step.

We will download PRD 5.0 from SourceForge.net and explain how different versions of PRD are organized on the download site.

Once we have downloaded PRD, we will install it in our operating system. We will also explain how to configure the drivers that will be used and how to assign more RAM to the PRD execution environment.

Throughout this book we use the MySQL example database Sakila DB for creating different reports. We will explain what Sakila DB is and how to download and install it using the MySQL command-line processor (CLP).

We will show the tables of Sakila DB and their relations using entity relationship diagrams (ERD).

In this chapter we will learn how to:

Install the JDK
Set the JAVA_HOME and PATH variables
Download and install Pentaho Report...

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