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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO
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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

Overview of this book

Open source reporting tools and techniques, such as PRD, have been comparable in quality to their commercial counterparts this is largely due to the market's marked tendency to choose open source solutions. PRD is a very powerful tool and in order to take full advantage of it you need to pay attention to the important details. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide clearly explains the the foundation and then puts those concepts into practice through step-by-step visual guides. Feeling confident with your newly discovered, desirable, skill you will have the power to create your very own professional reports including graphics, formulas, sub-reports and many other forms of data reporting.Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to create high quality, professional reports. Starting with the basics we will explore each feature to ensure a thorough understanding to peel back the curtain and take full advantage of the power that Pentaho puts at our fingertips. This book gives you the necessary resources to create a great variety of reports. You will be able to make reports that contain sub-reports, include graphics, sparklines and so on. You will also be able to parameterize your reports so that the final user can decide what information to visualize. You will be able to create your own stoplight type indicators and drill down in your reports. and execute your reports from your own web application. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide lets you learn everything necessary to work seriously with one of the world's most popular open source reporting tools. This book will guide you chapter by chapter through examples, graphics, and theoretical explanations so that you feel comfortable interacting with Pentaho Report Designer and creating your own reports.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a new data set


Now we will open the previously created report and save it with a different name. This copy shall serve as the base report, which we will use throughout this chapter. Later we will create a new data set of JDBC type.

  1. Open the 01_Hello_World.prpt report from the PRD UI. To do so, click on the icon from the Shortcuts menu, and search for the report 01_Hello_World.prpt; select it, and click on the OK button.
  2. Now navigate to File | Save As... and save the current report with the following name: 03_Adding_Relational_DS.prpt.

  3. We will now create a new data set of JDBC type. In order to do so, go to the Data Panel (inside the Panel tab), right-click on Data Sets and select the JDBC option.

  4. We will be presented with a new window on the left side of which we will be able to observe the connections that have already been defined by the current user:

    Note

    By default, PRD brings a series of example data sets. To see these connections in detail, we can go to the...