Using Pentaho with opentaps

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How to design and run a report with the pentaho framework

1. First we need to get the Pentaho Report Designer (stable version 1.5.6) Pentaho Report Designer 1.5.6

2. 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"/> -->

3. Configuration of the database connection for the Pentaho Report Designer tool :

  • 3.1 Unzip the Report Designer you have downloaded to a directory we will call <REPORT-DESIGNER-HOME>
  • 3.2 Drop you JDBC database driver in <REPORT-DESIGNER-HOME>/lib/jdbc

4. Run the Pentaho Report Designer application 5. You should be able to see this screen on your computer : Fig1 - Screenshot-Pentaho Report Designer 1.5.6.png