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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162247
Pages 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters close

Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What is Pentaho Report Designer? 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 Sakila DB Data Dictionary Pop Quiz Answers Index

Aggregation functions


So far, we have introduced two functions into our report:

  • ProductCounter: This performs a cumulative count on the rows in the Details section. This function belongs to the Running category.

  • SumQty: This performs a cumulative count on the sum_amount fields of the rows present in the Details section. This function also belongs to the Running category.

Every function in the Running category performs calculations, sum, counts, and so on in a cumulative fashion, that is, they take into consideration the values obtained on previous pages. For example, the Count function appearing on the first page performs a count of the rows of the said page, from the second page on it will add the current page count to the total count of the previous one. In the same way, the functions Maximum and Minimum, when applied to the first page only take into consideration the minimum and maximum values, respectively, as shown on the first page. In the following pages, they will only update these...

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