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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

Summary

We created a copy of the report 05_Adding_Groups.prpt and modified its layout.

We explained what a hyperlink is, how to use it, and what it is used for. We talked about the different types of hyperlinks that can be created in PRD. We detailed the interaction between PRD and the Pentaho BA Server when using hyperlinks.

We created a hyperlink on a text-field that returns the value of the field country. We configured this hyperlink to open the report 13_Adding_Subreports.prpt and passed it the desired country as a parameter.

We explained how and where the information related to Hyperlinks is saved and analyzed the DRILLDOWN function.

We added a subreport to the Report Header Section and configured it and added a pie chart to it. We configured a hyperlink on this pie chart, so that clicking on each portion of the pie chart shows the report 09_Using_Formulas.prpt filtered by the value of the selected portion.

We explained what sparklines are and what they are used for. We explained the characteristics...

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