Pentaho Data Integration

Pentaho Report Designer
Version
9.5.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-95PDIA008-09

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) .KTR files can act as a data source, but you must copy all the JAR files from pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/lib/ and all of its subdirectories except the JDBC subdirectory to pentaho/design-tools/report-designer/lib/.

Use the Pentaho Data Integration data source option if you want to create a report that contains data from any step in a Data Integration transformation. This is particularly useful if you want to create a report that includes data from transformation steps such as Splunk Input or Splunk Output. You must have a report file open in order to proceed, and your data source must be accessible before you can connect to it in Report Designer. As mentioned previously in this section, the first time you create a Kettle data source you must also copy all the JAR files from pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/lib/ and all its subdirectories except the JDBC subdirectory to pentaho/design-tools/report-designer/lib/ in order to access it through Report Designer.
Note: Your data source must not contain multi-select parameters. Data Integration does not accept array parameters; only strings are accepted.

Follow this procedure to add a Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) data source in Report Designer.

  1. Select the Data tab in the upper right pane.
    By default, Report Designer starts in the Structure tab, which shares a pane with Data.
  2. Click the yellow cylinder icon in the upper left part of the Data pane, or right-click Data Sets.
    A drop-down menu with a list of supported data source types will appear.
  3. Select Pentaho Data Integration from the drop-down menu.
    The Kettle Datasource window will appear.
  4. Click the round green + icon to add a new query.
  5. Type a concise yet sufficiently descriptive name into the Name field.
  6. Click Browse and navigate to your Pentaho Data Integration KTR file.
  7. Review the imported steps and modify their parameters accordingly, then click OK.
    OLAP
    Report Designer only supports Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian) OLAP sources at this time.
    Pentaho Analysis
    A Mondrian schema file.
    Pentaho Analysis Denormalized
    A Mondrian schema file, denormalized.
    Pentaho Analysis Legacy
    A Mondrian data source imported from a report created with a version of Report Designer older than 3.5.0.
    XML
    An XQuery file.
    Table
    Create your own data table by entering information manually, or importing it from an Excel spreadsheet file (XLS).
    MongoDB
    Use data stored in this document-oriented NoSQL database.
    Advanced
    The data sources in this category are typically for software developers and special-use cases.
    JDBC (Custom)
    Allows designers to dynamically create a query from a formula or function.
    Scriptable
    Allows designers to generate a data set via JavaScript, Bean Shell, Groovy, Netrexx, XSLT, JACL, or Jython.
    External
    Used only if the report is going to run on the Pentaho Server, which means the data is retrieved via a component in an action sequence. The query name for the report must be mapped to the result set in the .xaction file.