Rethinking the Pentaho Report Designer LayoutThe Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) has evolved to a very feature-rich product. In this article I want to point out one problem that I still have with this product from a usability point of view.Imagine following scenario: You are about to create a new report for your CEO. In a nutshell the report should have first a summary cross-tab with the essential KPIs and then below some more detailed product data in a standard table (let's keep it simple). Now currently you would create the product report/table...
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Friday, 4 December 2009
Pentaho Reporting 3.6 Milestone 1 is out!Great news over on the Pentaho Community Forum! The first milestone of PRD 3.6 has been released. Have a look at the release notes here.There have been several bug fixes plus the addition of some great new features. I just want to highlight some that are important for me:Added OLAP4J (Advanced) and Mondrian (Advanced) datasources. These datasources work exactly as the SQL (Advanced) datasource by allowing the query to be computed by a formula.Formulas can be used in parameters now. There are two formula...
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Exporting Characters as UTF-8 from Ke...
Posted on 08:21 by Unknown
Exporting characters as UTF-8 from Kettle Recently I took over a project for our Russian office, which strangely enough is part of the UK & International region of the company I am working for. This was the first time I was exposed to handling Cyrillic characters.Basically there are following points to take into concern:Make sure your MySQL table uses the UTF-8 encodingMake sure that in the database connection details in Kettle following options are set: characterEncoding=utf8, characterSetResult=utf8,useUnicode=true.Once you ran...
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