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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788298995

Pages 470 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Jasmine Kaur

Francesco Corti

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Introduction to Pentaho Reporting

2. Getting Started with Report Designer

3. Getting Started with Reporting SDK

4. Creating a Report with Report Designer

5. Design and Layout in Report Designer

6. Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources

7. Including Graphics and Charts in Reports

8. Parameterization, Functions, Variables, and Formulas

9. Internationalization and Localization

10. Subreports and Cross Tabs

11. The PRPT Format and the Java API to Build It

12. Developing Using Data Sources

13. Internationalization, Subreports, and Cross Tabs Using Java

14. Building Interactive Reports

15. Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform

16. Using Reports in Pentaho Data Integration

17. Pentaho Reporting Nightly Build and Support

Environment variables

If you are publishing your Pentaho reports to the Business Analytics Platform (see Chapter 15, Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform for an introduction), you can use certain environment variables to customize and control the behavior. The environment variables are available by default in a Pentaho report when it's created, and they live in the Data tab of the report explorer. The following screenshot shows how the report explorer looks with the environment variable expanded:

Environment variable can be used as usual, by dragging and dropping it into the right place of the report. The following is a list of the variables with brief descriptions of their meanings:

Name	Description
`env:hostColonPort`	The hostname and port number for the Business Analytics Platform.
`env:locale`	Info about locale of the client requesting the report. `env:locale-language` and `env:locale-short` are other two variables available.
`env:pentahoBaseURL`	The complete URL to the Business Analytics...