Using Pentaho with opentaps

How to design and run a report with the pentaho framework

1. We need to activate the opentaps pentaho component by uncommenting the following line in hot-deploy/component-load.xml :

<!-- <load-component component-location="${ofbiz.home}/hot-deploy/pentaho"/> -->

2. Change the base-url context parameter in the web.xml file located in <OPENTAPS-HOME>\hot-deploy\pentaho\webapp\pentaho\WEB-INF to suit your web url:

   <context-param> 
     <param-name>base-url</param-name>
     <param-value>http://myweburl/pentaho</param-value>      
     <!-- 
     <param-value>http://localhost:8080/pentaho/</param-value>
     --> 
   </context-param>

3. Change the baseUrlOverride parameter in the file DefaultParameterForm.xsl located in <OPENTAPS-HOME>\hot-deploy\pentaho-solutions\system\custom\xsl folder :

3. Download the Pentaho Report Designer (stable version 1.5.6) Pentaho Report Designer 1.5.6 and the Pentaho Design Studio. Please refer to Introducing the Pentaho Report Designer and Setting Up Parameters With the Design Studio for insight into downloading and using this tools.

4. After having designed the report, publish it to the opentaps BI solutions repository :

4.1 The opentaps BI solutions repository is located in <OPENTAPS-HOME>\hot-deploy\pentaho-solutions.

4.2 In the previous picture the TransactionSummary report sample is being published in the pentaho-solutions\financials\acctgtrans folder.

References

1. Introducing the Pentaho Report Designer

2. Setting Up Parameters With the Design Studio

To be continued ..