In Chapter 14, Building Interactive Reports, we discussed limiting the advanced interaction between reports to avoid failing projects. When interactions between visual elements become complex, the dashboards are probably the suggested solution. In the Pentaho suite, the right place to develop dashboards is the Business Analytics Platform, with the support of the CTools. CTools is a set of tools and components created to help you build custom dashboards on top of Pentaho. There are specific CTools for different purposes, but we will only introduce them as an example, considering they need an entire book to describe all the possibilities and nice features. Our goal in this section is to show an example of a dashboard, using the Pentaho reports as elements.
Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers
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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers
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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
Free Chapter
Introduction to Pentaho Reporting
Getting Started with Report Designer
Getting Started with Reporting SDK
Creating a Report with Report Designer
Design and Layout in Report Designer
Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources
Including Graphics and Charts in Reports
Parameterization, Functions, Variables, and Formulas
Internationalization and Localization
Subreports and Cross Tabs
The PRPT Format and the Java API to Build It
Developing Using Data Sources
Internationalization, Subreports, and Cross Tabs Using Java
Building Interactive Reports
Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform
Using Reports in Pentaho Data Integration
Pentaho Reporting Nightly Build and Support
Customer Reviews