Environment variables

If you are publishing your Pentaho reports to the Business Analytics Platform (see Chapter 15, Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform for an introduction), you can use certain environment variables to customize and control the behavior. The environment variables are available by default in a Pentaho report when it's created, and they live in the Data tab of the report explorer. The following screenshot shows how the report explorer looks with the environment variable expanded:

Environment variable can be used as usual, by dragging and dropping it into the right place of the report. The following is a list of the variables with brief descriptions of their meanings:

Name	Description
env:hostColonPort	The hostname and port number for the Business Analytics Platform.
env:locale	Info about locale of the client requesting the report. env:locale-language and env:locale-short are other two variables available.
env:pentahoBaseURL	The complete URL to the Business Analytics...