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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

Report elements


All available report elements appear in the palette and may be dragged and dropped into the report canvas. Report elements make up the content of your report. They range from the label and text elements to the graphic, chart, and sub-report elements.

Like bands, the other report elements are also shown in the structure tab of report explorer and the list of properties is available in the report element properties. Like the elements described in the previous section, the report elements also inherit the existing properties from their parent and they propagate the common properties to the children elements.

In this section, you will learn the properties related to each type of element in the palette. As we saw in the previous section about bands, you will start from the common ones and then you will see a detailed description for each element.

Note

Also valid in this case is the suggestion shared earlier in the book: play as much as you can with elements and Report Designer to...