Trying out stylesheets
To try out the stylesheets we just created, run them through PRD, whose default user is Designer, and from the Pentaho BA Server, logging in with the user Admin
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Then, on one hand, preview the report in PRD.
On the other hand, publish the report in Pentaho BA Server, in the same folder where we published previous reports. When asked if you want to execute the report now, click on the Yes option.
In the following screenshot we have placed the results of the two executions of the report side by side for comparison. On the left is the report executed in Pentaho BA Server, and on the right is the report executed in PRD:
If we review the CSS rules that we have defined, we can see that we have done an important job using environment variables and stylesheets.
Next, we will talk about another new feature in Pentaho Report Designer: Crosstabs!
Learning about crosstabs
A crosstab is a table where we can analyze and compare the relationship of the results of two or more study variables...