Customising the Pentaho User Console – Part 2.

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This post is part 2 of the series “Customising the Pentaho User Console (PUC)” Version 3.5.x. Here is a list of what I have covered in other parts:

In this post I will show you how to customise messages for the login dialog and PUC.

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Customising the Pentaho User Console – Part 1.

Posted under BI Server, Open Source, Pentaho, Tutorials, User Console

For the past couple of weeks I have been playing around with customising the Pentaho User Console (PUC) Version 3.5.x and to follow it up I thought I would put together a multi-part post on the topic. Each post will cover one aspect of customising the PUC, these include:

In this post I will show you how to customise the default login dialog and how to create a new login page.

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Parameter Types with Pentaho Report Designer 3.5.

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Pentaho Report Designer 3.5 came with nine new pre built parameters. Below is a quick overview of the nine parameters. Each overview includes:

  • Screenshot and description
  • How to setup your parameter query
  • How to setup your report query to accept the parameter

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Creating Parameters with Pentaho Report Designer.

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With the release of Pentaho Report Designer 3.5 users can create parameters through the designer rather than having to build a xaction which at times could be messy and confusing. Here is a tutorial on how you can create a basic parameter with Pentaho Report Designer 3.5.

If you aren’t already aware Doug Moran (Pentaho’s Community Leader) has already created a set off screen casts showing off features of Pentaho Report Designer 3.5.

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Publishing Content with Pentaho 3.5.

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For those starting out with Pentaho it can be confusing on how to publish content (reports, ETL jobs etc.) to Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) server. I have put together a guide which outlines the steps you will need to enable publishing and also an example of how you can use Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) to publish reports.

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Survey Scale charts with Pentaho Report Designer.

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Survey Scale Post PreviewAfter the new release of Pentaho’s Report Designer 3.5 (PRD) I thought I would get stuck into trying out some of the new charting features, of which Survey Scales (and of course Sparklines) interested me the most. Survey Scales are a way of graphically representing values on a predefined scale i.e. survey responses.

Below is a tutorial which I have put together on how to implement Survey Scales within a report using Pentaho’s Report Designer 3.5.

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