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You're reading from Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

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

Creating a dashboard with Pentaho reports

In Chapter 14, Building Interactive Reports, we discussed limiting the advanced interaction between reports to avoid failing projects. When interactions between visual elements become complex, the dashboards are probably the suggested solution. In the Pentaho suite, the right place to develop dashboards is the Business Analytics Platform, with the support of the CTools. CTools is a set of tools and components created to help you build custom dashboards on top of Pentaho. There are specific CTools for different purposes, but we will only introduce them as an example, considering they need an entire book to describe all the possibilities and nice features. Our goal in this section is to show an example of a dashboard, using the Pentaho reports as elements.

Community dashboard editor basics

A core part of the CTools, the Community Dashboard Editor (CDE), is included in the Pentaho user console as a graphical tool for creating, editing, and previewing...