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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By : Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti
Book Image

Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By: Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti

Overview of this book

This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML, and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up-and-running quickly. Updated to cover the features of Pentaho 8, this book will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho. If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Managing permits and schedule


Using a Pentaho report through the Business Analytics Platform mean also having full control over who can do what. Pentaho Business Analytics Platform has a fine tuning system for permissions and everything is manageable through the browse files page. Starting from there, you can point to a report and you will see the Share item on the right panel. Clicking on it, a modal window will be presented, where you can control all the permits. Before moving forward, let's focus on the Inherits folder permissions check. This feature in particular enables you to inherit the permits in the repository structure quite easily. If you want to interrupt and customize the inheritance, uncheck this flag and add/remove the roles and single permission according to your needs. In the following screenshot, you can see how this window looks and look at all the possible settings:

In the same menu (on the right panel of the browse files page), you can see the Schedule item. Clicking...