Description

Uses the Pentaho Reporting Engine to generate a report given a report specification and report input data.

Inputs and Outputs

Report Specification - The file that contains the Pentaho Report definition. The file may be either a JFreeReport definition or a Pentaho Report Design Wizard specification.

Report Data - The data to be used when generating the report. This is only used when a JFreeReport definition is used. This is because Pentaho Design Wizard specifications have the data queries emedded within them.

Report Parameters - Action sequence parameters that are passed on to the reporting engine for use in generating the Pentaho Report. The report definition should reference these same parameters by name.

Subreport Data/Queries - The data sets or prepared queries referenced by subreports appearing in the report definition. Any queries used should be tagged for execution by the Pentaho Report engine (Refer to the various query actions for more details).

Report Format - The output report format.

Output Report Name - The name of the output parameter that will contain the generated report.