Here is another little xaction that demonstrates the FTP capabilities of xactions. Just like the last one, make sure to save it in the workspace directory for Design Studio so that it displays properly when you try to edit it. Open the ftp_prpt_report_w_parm.xaction file in Design Studio (Eclipse). You will […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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There are moments when working with the BI server that you will desire functionality that isn’t necessarily available through the server itself or any plugin that is currently out there. In these situations, you will need xactions, which can be a little intimidating at first glance. For this reason, we’ll […]
Since we use gmail for our company email, we found it to be a bit trickier to enter the information through Enterprise Console unless you update your password. To get around this, we edited the serverbiserver-eepentaho-solutionssystemsmtp-emailemail_config.xml file as shown below. Make note to change it to your own email and […]
For those of you looking to add a little something extra to your Pentaho Report Designer reports, here are some steps to allow FusionCharts to be inserted directly into the report. Of course, this is very format specific, and will only work with HTML. Download, Setup, and Test on Pentaho […]
Anyone who has ever actually attempted it may have noticed that Pentaho Report Designer does not natively accept XMLA as a datasource. It is still possible, and this little guide will step you through how to do this. We used MSSQL 2008R2 with the standard Adventure Works example data loaded. […]
Since CAS is capable of integrating applications made in many different languages, you may want to take the time to get everything you can authenticating through it. Every different language needs a separate client though, which needs to be installed and configured. The official client for PHP is phpCAS. The […]