Pentaho Reporting
With the Pentaho-Report-Designer you can create report-definitions in a graphical environment. Reports are usually published to the Pentaho-Platform, which allows you to manage, run and schedule the reports you created. If you are new to Pentaho-Reporting, you probably want to start with the Pentaho Report-Designer.
Internally, reports are executed by the Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine. Pentaho Reporting encompasses more than two dozen software projects that facilitate creating and publishing data-driven business reports. If you are a developer or power user, the book "Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers" (by Pack-Publishing) provides a great reference guide for all your needs.
Enterprise Edition documentation
Enterprise Edition customers have access to the following professionally written, tested, and actively maintained Pentaho Reporting documentation in XHTML format through the new Pentaho Knowledge Base, or in PDF format through the Help menus of the appropriate software:
- Pentaho User Console 2.0 Enterprise Edition Guide
- Pentaho Enterprise Edition 2.0 Administrator's Guide
- Pentaho Report Designer 2.0 User Guide
In addition to these comprehensive guides, there are also support articles and tech tips available through the Knowledge Base.
For Pentaho Community Edition users, this Wiki and the Pentaho Forum are the two best resources for Pentaho Reporting documentation and support. The below-listed articles were contributed by Pentaho employees and open source community members.
Contributing community documentation
All registered users are able and encouraged to directly fix any errors and eliminate any omissions in this Wiki. Feel free to contribute information or instructions for any topic relating to the Pentaho Report Designer, ad hoc reporting, the Pentaho Reporting engine, Metadata Editor, or Design Studio. However, unless it's specifically a sub-topic of an existing article, please create all new pages relating to Pentaho Reporting as children of one of the below topical pages, and all articles pertaining to Metadata Editor and Design Studio as children of those sub-pages.
Feature overview
Community documentation for the Classic-Engine Design-Tools
The Pentaho Report-Designer and the Report-Design-Wizard have changed radically in the Pentaho-3.5 (Citrus) Release. The documentation for the older versions is very likely to be inaccurate and obsolete for those versions.
Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine 3.5
The Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine is the proven and stable branch of our embedded reporting engine. It is a banded reporting engine that is based on an absolute layout.
User Guides
Blogs, Articles, How-Tos
Books
Developer Guides
A pentaho-reporting-sdk aimed at Java-Developers with simple demos, a detailed step-by-step guide and all the sources for all the libraries used in the demos is available from sourceforge.
Installation Guides
User Guides
Obsolete Documentation
Pentaho Reporting Flow Engine (Alpha)
The Pentaho Reporting Flow Engine is the next generation reporting engine for the Pentaho Project. As we are still adding features to the engine to get a complete first version of this thing, this is the right time to collect ideas and feature-requests to make the Engine the best Reporting Engine on this planet.This part of the Wiki itself is subdivided into three sections. The Flow-Engine will evolve into 'Pentaho Reporting 2.0'.
Archived Pentaho-Reporting Documentation
The documentation section acts as general library. It contains the content for the manual and all how-to's and technical articles that have been or will be written. Before posting an feature request, peek in here to see whether your requested feature isn't already implemented.
Feature Requests
Please enter these requests into our JIRA system. The Wish-List contains all (and I mean it: all) ideas, features and usage scenarios that could be possibly done using Pentaho-Reporting (except for doing the dishes or time-traveling related ideas any idea is welcome here.)
