Pentaho Reporting is a predefined reporting suite with the ability to connect to rich data sources, including PDI transformation. It cannot have a dynamic matrix layout like that of OLAP's pivoting report, but it has the ability to include other rich-user interactivities. PRD (Pentaho Report Designer) is a client designer tool to create a Pentaho Reporting report. We will briefly explain the usage of PRD and the report's file format.
The solution file for the report will be in a compressed file format and has the .prpt
extension. The reporting engine then parses and renders the file's content into an HTML page or in any other format that we choose. HTML resources such as cascading style sheets, JavaScripts, or image files can be included in the .prpt
file. If you have any compression tool such as 7-Zip, try to explore one of the reporting samples distributed with Pentaho BI Server.
For example, the following screenshot shows the files contained in the [BISERVER]/pentaho-solutions...