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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

You're reading from   Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers Create pixel-perfect analytical reports using reporting tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788298995
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Corti Francesco Corti
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Jasmine Kaur Jasmine Kaur
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Preface 1. Introduction to Pentaho Reporting FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Report Designer 3. Getting Started with Reporting SDK 4. Creating a Report with Report Designer 5. Design and Layout in Report Designer 6. Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources 7. Including Graphics and Charts in Reports 8. Parameterization, Functions, Variables, and Formulas 9. Internationalization and Localization 10. Subreports and Cross Tabs 11. The PRPT Format and the Java API to Build It 12. Developing Using Data Sources 13. Internationalization, Subreports, and Cross Tabs Using Java 14. Building Interactive Reports 15. Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform 16. Using Reports in Pentaho Data Integration 17. Pentaho Reporting Nightly Build and Support

Cross tabs in Pentaho Report Designer


A cross tabulation (or cross tab) allows you to view dimensional data in a report. Using cross tabs, you can easily view two or more fields and how they relate based on a measure. Cross tabs summarize the information in your database and they lay out in a grid, with rows representing dimensions (for example, country, date, or salesperson), columns representing another dimensions, and the intersection containing the aggregations (usually sums). Cross tabs are similar to pivot tables in Microsoft Excel.

Pentaho Reporting offers the ability to create cross tab based reports. These are special type of reports that render differently than most standard reports. These reports also expect the data to be in a particular format. Cross tab reports can be driven by multidimensional queries (as highlighted in Chapter 6Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources, Pentaho Reporting offers a Mondrian and OLAP4j data source for providing multidimensional data to a report...

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