PRD is launched from your Windows Start menu under the Pentaho application folder. Within that folder, you will find the Report Designer item within the Pentaho Business Analytics
subdirectory. Alternatively, you can launch PRD from the Windows batch file located under \pentaho\design-tools\report-designer\report-designer.bat
.
Upon launching PRD, the Welcome screen will appear to help new users get started with running sample reports, creating a new report, or using the Report Wizard to assist in developing a simple report:
Upon clicking on New Report, a blank report will be created as a new tab in the report workspace. PRD is a banded report writer because the workspace is divided into horizontal layout bands that extend across the page. Each band contains different information for constructing a logical report layout. PRD will display a default set of layout bands, as shown in the following screenshot:
The currently selected Page...