Now that you have successfully installed Pentaho Report Designer and you are more confident with the user interface, in this section, you will walk through building a first complete report. The report you are going to develop will list all the products in the catalog defined in the SampleData
schema and more precisely, stored in the PRODUCTS
table. Before you begin, create a directory called my_reports
on your laptop, to manage the files you will develop in this book.
Note
In the GitHub repository available at https://github.com/fcorti/pentaho-8-reporting-for-java-developers, you can find the source code described in all the examples of this book. In the Chapter 02 - Getting started with Report Designer/my_reports
folder, you can find the example described here, in the file named my_first_report.prpt
.