Pentaho Reporting User Manual

Report Designer Manual

This manual covers Pentaho Reporting 3.7.0. Most of the content in this manual also applies to version 3.5 or 3.6.

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01. Creating Your First Report

02. Reporting Basics

03. Data-Sources

  • Table
  • JDBC
  • Metadata
  • MDX

04. Designing a report

05. Charting using JFreeChart

06. Aggregations and Calculated Fields

07. Expressions

08. Formulas

09. Dynamic styling of reports: Style and value expressions

10. Subreports

  • Inline and banded subreports: when to use which
  • conditionally hiding subreports
  • subreport parametrization

11. Table-of-Contents and Index

12. Parameter

13. Report Design Wizard and Metadata driven field-formats

14. Advanced Data Sources and self-service reports

  • Advanced SQL and MQL
  • Kettle
  • Scripted data source
  • Hibernate

15. Report Preprocessor