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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO
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Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

Overview of this book

Open source reporting tools and techniques, such as PRD, have been comparable in quality to their commercial counterparts this is largely due to the market's marked tendency to choose open source solutions. PRD is a very powerful tool and in order to take full advantage of it you need to pay attention to the important details. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide clearly explains the the foundation and then puts those concepts into practice through step-by-step visual guides. Feeling confident with your newly discovered, desirable, skill you will have the power to create your very own professional reports including graphics, formulas, sub-reports and many other forms of data reporting.Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to create high quality, professional reports. Starting with the basics we will explore each feature to ensure a thorough understanding to peel back the curtain and take full advantage of the power that Pentaho puts at our fingertips. This book gives you the necessary resources to create a great variety of reports. You will be able to make reports that contain sub-reports, include graphics, sparklines and so on. You will also be able to parameterize your reports so that the final user can decide what information to visualize. You will be able to create your own stoplight type indicators and drill down in your reports. and execute your reports from your own web application. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide lets you learn everything necessary to work seriously with one of the world's most popular open source reporting tools. This book will guide you chapter by chapter through examples, graphics, and theoretical explanations so that you feel comfortable interacting with Pentaho Report Designer and creating your own reports.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Business


The business database contains the following tables:

The staff table

The staff table contains information about all staff members described as follows:

Column

Description

staff_id

A primary key used to uniquely identify each staff member in the table.

first_name

The staff member's first name.

last_name

The staff member's last name.

address_id

A foreign key identifying the address of the staff member in the address table.

picture

A photograph of the employee.

email

The staff member's e-mail address.

store_id

The staff member's "home store". The employee can work at other stores but is generally assigned to the store that is listed.

active

Indicates whether the staff member is an active staff member. Setting this to FALSE serves as a logical deletion of the staff member.

username

The username used by the staff member to access the rental system.

password

The password used by the staff member to access the rental system.

last_update

The most recent row update. It has not been used in this book.

The following screenshot shows the table_staff table:

The store table

The store table contains information about all the stores described as follows:

Column

Description

store_id

A primary key used to uniquely identify each store in the table.

manager_staff_id

A foreign key identifying the manager of this store in the staff table.

address_id

A foreign key identifying the address of the store in the address table.

last_update

The most recent row update. It has not been used in this book.

The following screenshot shows the store table:

The rental table

The rental table contains information about each rental of each inventory item described as follows:

Column

Description

rental_id

A primary key used to uniquely identify each item in the table.

rental_date

The date and time at which the item was rented.

inventory_id

A foreign key identifying the physical film being rented in the inventory table.

customer_id

The customer who rents the film.

return_date

The date and time at which the film was returned.

staff_id

The staff member who processed the rental.

last_update

The most recent row update. It has not been used in this book.

The following screenshot shows the rental table:

The payment table

The payment table contains information about each payment made by a customer, with information such as the amount and the rental being paid for (when applicable), described as follows:

Column

Description

payment_id

A primary key used to uniquely identify each payment in the table.

customer_id

A foreign key that identifies the customer making the payment in the customer table.

staff_id

A foreign key that identifies the staff member who processed the payment in the staff table.

rental_id

The rental that the payment is being applied to. This is optional because some payments are for outstanding fees and may not be directly related to a rental.

amount

The amount of the payment.

payment_date

The date on which the payment was processed.

last_update

The most recent row update. It has not been used in this book.

The following screenshot shows the payment table: