Experimenting with new layout features in PRD

Experimenting with new layout features in PRDNote: This article will cover features that are still in development. We take a first look at them, do not expect them to be feature complete and do not use them in production.All layouting strategies mentioned in this blog post are available for download here.To experiment with the new features yourself, download the latest PRD build from http://ci.pentaho.com/Place data rows next to each otherThe standard...

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Jasper Report: Gracefully Hide Columns On Request

For some reports you might want to offer the end users some more flexibility in terms of which columns they actually want to see in the report.Documentation about this feature is scarce. When I was looking at a solution for this request some time ago I coincidentally stumble across Nestor's blog post (Some years ago, when I was living in Miami, Nestor and I used to work for the same company), which I found very useful.Our...

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Jasper Report Bursting with Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) using a REST service

Jasper Report Bursting with Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) using a REST serviceJasperReports Server 4.7 comes with some very useful REST services, one of them being a report creation service. The nice thing about this is that it is extremely easy to call this service.Imagine our company has several regions and each regional managing director should receive a customized report. As the layout is the same for every region, we can just create one...

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