The Report Designer

The report designer used for creation of report definitions can be downloaded here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Report%20Designer/

Installation Instructions

1. Download and unpack the installation file.
2. Copy the USU jdbc driver 'si-pdr-xmljdbc-2.2.0.jar' to the 'report-designer/lib' folder. This ensures the support of Valuemation XML data format.
3. Check the version of existing HyperSQL driver 'hsqldb.jar'. If version is less than 2.3.2 (e.g. 'hsqldb-1.8.0.jar'), remove it and use the USU latest driver.
4. Both USU .jar files can be copied from folder 'Tomcat/webapps/vmweb/WEB-INF/lib' under Valuemation installation.
5. Edit the Report Designer configuration file 'report-designer/resources/classic-engine.properties' and add the following lines:

   org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.environment.pentahoImagePath=c:\report-designer\resources\report_styling

   org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.env-mapping.pentahoImagePath=env\:\:pentahoImagePath

6. Copy your pictures and your stylesheet (*.prptstyle) to the specified 'pentahoImagePath'
7. Copy USU report template to the 'report-designer/templates' folder. It can be found in folder ./addon/VMA/Reports/templates' in the Valuemation deployment package.

For detail information on the use of stylesheets, go to chapter 'Report stylesheet'.

To open the designer, run the 'report-designer.bat' file (for Windows) or 'report-designer.sh' (Linux) in the 'report-designer' folder.