In this chapter, you will learn the ins and outs of two advanced reporting topics: subreports and cross tabs. Subreports allow you to embed reusable reports within a master report. As you will see, with the help of examples, subreports can take on many forms, from multi-page detail reports to summary subreports that include charts. As two specific types of subreports, you will learn about table of content element and index element. Along with subreports, you will learn how to incorporate cross tabs in your reports. Cross tabs allow you to compare multiple variables in a single table of data values.
This chapter is written as a reference manual for developers and information technologists. Reading this chapter, you should feel comfortable with all the advanced features of subreports and cross tabs available in Pentaho Report Designer. This is the last chapter dedicated to Report Designer and it covers the last advanced features of this front-end tool of...