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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By : Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti
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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

Previewing a report


Now that the Pentaho report is correctly published in the Business Analytics Platform, what you probably expect to do is to start using it. The most simple use we can think of is the preview. The preview of a Pentaho report can be done in two different ways: by manually using the browse files page or through a direct link.

Previewing a report from the browse files page

Previewing a report from the browse files page is as straightforward as clicking on the .prpt file and selecting the Open item or the Open in a new window item. The difference between the two is easy to understand, but the final result is exactly the same, even if the target window will be different.

Previewing a report using a direct link

One of the most powerful features of the Business Analytics Platform is accessing a published report using a public URL. The public URL is defined as follow:

  • The base URL. In our example, http://localhost:8080/pentaho.
  • The endpoint path. In our example, /api/repos/.
  • The path...