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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162247
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 – creating a Tomcat instance

Next, we will create and configure an instance of Apache Tomcat within our project. We will modify the initial timeout for our server and initiate it. We will finally test our website on a web browser.

  1. Our website is currently configured and functional, but in order to test it we will need to create an instance of Apache Tomcat and publish the site on the said instance. We will select the Servers View, which is placed in the bottom part of the Web Perspective, and select the new server wizard… option as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – creating a Tomcat instance
  2. On the first screen of the wizard, we will make sure that Tomcat v7.0 Server is selected from the Select the server type list and leave the rest of the values unchanged:
    Time for action – creating a Tomcat instance

    Click on the Next > button to continue.

  3. On the next window, we will select our project from the the Available list (left-hand side) and add it to the Configured list (right-hand side) by clicking on the Add > button:
    Time for action – creating a Tomcat instance

    Click on the...

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