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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162247
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO
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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

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.

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...

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