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Questions tagged [pentaho-report-designer]
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Oracle SQL - How to strip leading bytes from BLOB (and return as RAW)?
I'm writing a query for a reporting tool (Pentaho Report Designer) where I need to retrieve some jpgs that are stored in the Oracle 11 database. The trick is that the jogs (stored as BLOBs) include a 12 byte header (added by another application)…

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Pentaho: how to create complex reports
I have to build a complex report (e.g. header, text and multiple lists and charts, arranged here and there on multiple pages). Something like a complex invoice.
I've found no examples on the net for such reports in Pentaho.
I tried with subreports,…

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Pentaho Report Designer PDF export is not showing the Japanese characters
I have created a report using Pentaho Report Designer 3.9.1 and it contains Japanese characters. When I try to export the report into PDF, I am not getting the Japanese characters in PDF. Instead of Japanese characters it's showing as empty in…

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Pentaho Report Designer - Dynamic Data Sources
I have a local instance of the Pentaho Report Designer running on my box and it has a local development database configured as its data sources. (2 datasource configs, both pointing to the same local data server; source and target…

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Pentaho APIs on tomcat apache 8 server(port - 8080) giving CORs issues when called through different web app(react JS, port - 3000)
I am stuck as a point where I've to call pentaho API to authenticate user from a reactJS app. Both are on my local machine. Things I've tried so far:
a) Add a proxy in reactJS config file - package.json.
issue - Code hits the localhost:3000 instead…

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Pentaho PRD - Summing Group'ed Values w/o Using SQL (Object-Based Datasource)
In Pentaho's PRD, I am working with an object datasource (i.e. I do not have a SQL query I may edit to group the data). To realize the required report, I must group the data within the PRD (OK) and only show these grouped values (OK). How can I…

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Pentaho Report designer - parameterization on Locale Date format (~environment designtime- Locale)
Irrespective of locale date format, I need to genereate the report with the date format of the locale which i passed in runtime. Am getting the expected results when I am editing fr in environment-designtime-locale and running it. But I want that to…

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Pentaho Kettle don't work after packages update on Ubuntu 14.04
The spoon was working normally until an Ubuntu update was run. After updating the . / spoon.sh command don't start the application.
I accessed the update log and saw that it only updated things pertaining to postgresql as shown…

Danilo Santos
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Incorrect number formatting in Pentaho Report
I'm using Pentaho Report designer 3.9 for a legacy project that has some reports that should support different languages (English, Spanish and Euskera).
I have a problem with the number formatting. While in English and Spanish numbers show properly…

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How to Display Dynamic Columns in pentaho reporting?
Am new to pentaho reporting.
My requirement was, i have 20 fields, in those 20 fields user can give any fields by choosing their own sothat it populates that columns into report
Example:
Columns Names:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H ..............till…

Sekhar
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Parameter Pentaho Report Designer with MDX
I am doing a report, using Pentaho Report Designer. My datasource is a Mondrian Cube with MySQL JDBC. I am using MDX queries, and I want to put paramerize it. I have to configure a parameter with its own query.
I'm having trouble relating the main…

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Pentaho Report Designer: Passing list of values as parameters to report
Report Objective: Performance analysis of players by statistics comparison
Desired Report Layout
Please refer to the layout and read on. The player names need to be added from a list which could be anything like entry text box, multicheck box,…

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Pentaho Report Designer error in query
I am trying to create my first report in Pentaho Report Designer. I have created a JDBC Data Source and added a query:
SELECT a.*
FROM (SELECT Sum(loan_receivable_detail.interest) AS interest,
loan_account_opening_id
FROM…

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Date parameters in Pentaho Report designer are causing report not to show results?
I have a report in report designer connected to Teradata. I am using a date picker with the date parameters in report designer. My query in Teradata works, but in report designer, there are no results when I run it. I beleive it is due to the date…

Alyssa Wisner
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Pentaho report designer 8.3: crosstab report in Report header
I'm add a test query in dataset
select title as attr_value,
to_char(s,'YYYY') AS dt_year,
to_char(s,'mm') as dt_month,
1 as data
from my_test_table, GENERATE_SERIES('2018-01-01T00:00:00'::timestamp, '2018-05-01T00:00:00', '1…

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