The standard KNIME desktop distribution does not contain reporting capabilities, but KNIME Report Designer and KNIME HTML/PDF Writer extensions are available from the standard KNIME update site to generate reports. The latter is optional and not covered in this book.
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This is not distributed under the standard KNIME open source license (based on GNU GPL). It is still free, but in this case you are not allowed to modify the master page of the report template.
We will cover the report designer in detail. KNIME uses Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) to design and generate reports. Eclipse BIRT has a large community, providing a lot of products and tools. You can check it on the eclipse marketplace at http://marketplace.eclipse.org/category/categories/birt. The Eclipse version for KNIME 2.8.x is 3.7.2, so you might want to filter accordingly. The marketplace client for Eclipse 3.7 is available from the main eclipse update site...