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

Chapter 7. Adding Parameters

This chapter will be dedicated to parameters. Through the use of parameters, the final user will be able to interact with the report. A parameter is usually represented through a user interface component, which allows the selection or input of values.

Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) eases the task of parameter creation by giving us a simple and intuitive interface.

In this chapter:

We will create both simple parameters and nested parameters
We will make a parameter obtain its values through a data set
We will discuss the different kinds of parameter visualization available, exposing the features of each one of them
We will discuss how to make our SQL queries dynamically constructed according to the values the final user has provided through the use of parameters

As an extra, we will invite you to create your own report from the ground up, as well as give you a few tips to assist you in its creation.

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