Monthly Archives: March 2012

Xaction Basics – FTPing a file

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Benjamin Goewey

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in BI Server, Pentaho | Comments Off on Xaction Basics – FTPing a file

Xaction Basics – Sending an Email

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Benjamin Goewey

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in BI Server, Business Intelligence, Pentaho | Comments Off on Xaction Basics – Sending an Email

Changing Pentaho’s Default Email Server to a Gmail Account

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Benjamin Goewey

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 server\biserver-ee\pentaho-solutions\system\smtp-email\email_config.xml file as shown below.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Changing Pentaho’s Default Email Server to a Gmail Account

Fusion Charts in Pentaho Report Designer

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Benjamin Goewey

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Pentaho Report Designer, Reporting | 6 Comments

Using XMLA in Pentaho Reporting

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Gerrit Goewey

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis Services (SSAS), Microsoft SQL Server, OLAP, Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Report Designer | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Installing and configuring phpCAS

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Gerrit Goewey

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Installing and configuring phpCAS