The advanced data source
Advanced data sources require advanced knowledge and skills, so only a high-level overview of each advanced data source is given in this section.
Scriptable
The scriptable data source lets the developer develop a source code generating a dataset in various languages. As in the previous data sources, you can create multiple queries and manage the addition/deletion of queries.
External
The external data source is used when a report is used in .xaction
. You can refer to the official documentation for the (few) documents about this data source. Pentaho action sequence XML documents (.xaction
) define activities such as database queries, report generation, and email actions, and the order in which they occur.
Sequence generator
The sequence generator develops a sequence to be used in your report. As in previous data sources, you can create multiple queries and manage the addition/deletion of queries. For each query, you can define the group (numeric or system), the sequence...