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

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

Time for action – downloading, installing, and configuring PRD

We will download PRD from the SourceForge.net repositories, install PRD, and set your RAM:

To download PRD, paste http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Report%20Designer/ in your web browser.
Different versions of PRD are stored here, each version in its own folder.
In the latest versions, we can recognize the type of content of the packages according to the following pattern:
- prd-source-[version].zip: This contains the PRD source code
- prd-ce-[version].zip: This contains the Windows distribution
- prd-ce-mac-[version].tar.gz: This contains the Mac distribution
- prd-ce-[version].tar.gz: This contains the Linux distribution
In our case, we download Version 5.0.0; therefore, in Linux environments, we should download the following file:
- prd-ce-5.0.0.stable.tar.gz
And in Windows environments, we should download the following file:
- prd-ce-5.0.0.stable.zip
Now we will install PRD.
We choose a folder and unzip the file according to our...

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