Previewing the report
Now that the Report Design Wizard has completed its job, you have a fully featured report in your Pentaho Report Designer. The following screenshot shows what the user interface looks like:
Note
If you don't understand the details of the structure and the meaning of each label, don't worry. In the later chapters, we will cover all the details about the Pentaho Report Designer and you will practice a lot to became a real expert of the entire tool.
Before any other task, let's update the title and subtitles to make them more meaningful. To modify the title, double-click on the Report Title text and replace the content with My first report
. After this, double-click on SubTitle 1
and SubTitle 2
and remove the text in both. At the end of the changes, the titles should look like the following screenshot:
Now that the title has been modified, everything seems to be ready to preview the report in its final version for the users. To cover this need, Pentaho Report Designer has a...