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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

Time for action – configuration of libraries and the PRD report

We are going to copy PRD libraries into our project. We will then create a new folder within our project and copy a PRD report inside it. Finally, we will modify the connection type of this report so that it utilizes JNDI.

We will copy the libraries that compose PRD's Application Programming Interface (API) into our project.
Head to the lib folder in PRD_HOME], select every file in there, and copy it with Ctrl + C; then in Eclipse, select the node named prd5ch14 by going to WebContent | WEB-INF | lib and paste the copied files in there by pressing Ctrl + V.
Note
Many of the libraries we just copied are not really necessary for the execution of this chapter's PRD report, but we decided not to add complexity to this stage by choosing them one by one; that is why we are instructing you to copy all of them indiscriminately.
From the bulk of libraries we just copied into our project, select the one named jsp-api-2.0...

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