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titleTools You'll Need to Create and Run the Code

This code was developed to be run in the Pentaho Preconfigured Install, using the SampleData database that comes with the Preconfigured Install. The code was developed using the action sequence editor. The action sequence editor is part of the
Pentaho Design Studio, which is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE.
You can get the Preconfigured Install and the Design Studio at Source Forge. You will find the Preconfigured install in the section called Business Intelligence Suite. It is called pentaho-demo. You can find the Design Studio in the section by the same name.

In this example we'll develop an action sequence to generate an HTML report containing financial data for the current user's region. This suggests that when the user logs in, we need to identify the user's region, and store this information someplace that we can use later in our action sequence.
To identify the user's region, let's create a new action sequence in Eclipse using the action sequence editor.

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