March 02, 2007
Submitted by Mike D'Amour, Pentaho Team Developer
This Tech Tip is still in work and not complete
Introduction and Background
- growing need for dynamic reports (eg crosstab)
- reference to nic guzaldo techtips
- inline action-sequence based dynamic reporting
- can be done in Java code in an embedded solution
Fully Dynamic vs. Programmatic
- fully dynamic means the report will be generated without any knowledge of the data
- programmatic means our use of the ReportSpec API is targeted at a specific batch of data (typically a fixed number of columns)
Dynamic Sample
- include xaction XML along with detailed discussion
Programmatic Sample
- include xaction XML along with detailed discussion
Embedded Reporting
- assumption is that user already has jfreereport in an embedded environment
- example snippet of Java code that can be used to dynamically generate a report definition