Using resources to localize elements

In Pentaho Report Designer, there are three different elements available to be used for localization: resource-label, resource-field, and resource-message. All of them are available in the report element palette and can be used as usual-by dragging and dropping the element in the chosen place of the right band, directly in the report canvas.

The main idea behind the resource elements is that these kind of elements contain the key value for the resource and not directly the value to show. Once the key value is declared and used in a report element, a property file contains the association key/value and will be used at run time to show the final content to the user.

Using the resource-label element within your report allows you to localize labels with static texts. As introduced previously, this element contains the static resource key that will be resolved at runtime using the resource bundles detailed in the following paragraphs.

Using the resource-field...