Technical Tips
Every week the Pentaho team makes a concerted effort to improve our documentation. As anyone who has worked on an open source project can attest, there is never enough time to write all of the code you want to write and write all of the documentation you would like to accompany it.
Fortunately, we have a strong community that graciously contributes gems via forums and email discussions on successfully tackling frequently performed tasks. So we have dedicated this portion of our developer's site to publishing these technical gems so that the rest of the community can benefit from tested, "single-path-of-execution" solutions to everyday problems. Hopefully, you will find just the solution you are looking for here. If not, you can always post your dilemma in our forums here.
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Pentaho Tech Tips
External Articles
CDA configuration files basics part 1, part 2, part 3---July , 2010
Contributed bySergio Ramazzina, Pentaho Community MemberEasily build BI Server from behind an NTLM proxy— April 28, 2010
Contributed by Sergio Ramazzina, Pentaho Community MemberStep by Step: Customising the Pentaho User Console - Launch Page — March 10, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberStep by Step: Customising the Pentaho User Console - Menu Bar, Main Toolbar and Logo Panel— March 03, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberStep by Step: Customising the Pentaho User Console - Messages— February 17, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberStep by Step: Customising the Pentaho User Console - Login Page and Dialog— February 14, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberHands On: BI Server and MS Active Directory— February 18, 2010
Contributed by Sergio Ramazzina, Pentaho Community MemberStep by Step: BI Server 3.6 with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle on Linux and Windows — January 9, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberHands on: BiServer 3.5 PostgreSQL SSL — December 26, 2009
Contributed by Flavio Torres, Pentaho Community MemberUsing Open Flash Charts in the BI Platform — August 07, 2008
Contributed by Nick Goodman, Pentaho Community MemberPentaho on Glassfish, the Step-by-Step Installation — July 23, 2006
Contributed by Stephane Paquet, French bloggerHands on: MySQL Samples For Pentaho 1 (Installation of the PCI) — July 10, 2006
Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, NetherlandsHands on: MySQL Samples For Pentaho 2 (Configuration of the PCI) — July 12, 2006
Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, NetherlandsHands on: MySQL Samples For Pentaho 3 (Making the MySQL Directory) — July 16,2006,
Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, NetherlandsPentaho on Glassfish Quick and Dirty —
Contributed by Stephane Paquet, French bloggerStep by Step - Setting Up a custom solution repository— September 10, 2007,
Contributed by Michael Tarallo, Pentaho CorportationBusiness Intelligence mit Pentaho [German]— Dezember 10, 2007,
Contributed by Marcus Held and Ingo Klose, SHS VIVEON AGPentaho AJAX Guide— September 10, 2007,
Contributed by Michael Tarallo, Pentaho Corportation
Pentaho Tech Tips
External Articles
Great Overview of Kettle — June 10, 2006
Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, NetherlandsUPSERTS Using Kettle and MySQL — May 4, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaireUsing Java Locale to create a date dimension — September 4th, 2007
Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, NetherlandsKettle und die Entwicklung eines eigenen Plug-ins (German) — September, 2007 [Java Magazin 10.2007]
Contributed by Jens Bleuel, PentahoStudie zur Entwicklung eines Data Warehouses zur Auswertung von SAP-Controlling Daten an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (German) - February, 2006
Written by Martin Bernsteiner. [Development of a Data Warehouse for analysing SAP-Controlling Data at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration]Busines Solutions using PDI (In Open Document Text Format) - 2 May 2008
A work in progress text consisting of case studies and examples on solving common business problems with PDI.
Contributed by Pradesh Chanderpaul, DataCraft Software, South AfricaHowTo setup a repository for Pentaho — March 17, 2009
A new user who is evaluating or discovering all the possibilities available with Pentaho may find it difficult to get the first repository database setup. This article aims at giving a helping hand with this task.
Contributed by Gustav SchaffterQuick Recipes — Ongoing updates
Quick recipes for some common basic tasks.
Contributed by NilsBUsing Variables ( ? ) with Table Input Steps— June 12, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju - Pentaho Community MemberProcessing group of files executing a job once per file — August 26, 2010
Contributed by Sergio Ramazzina - Pentaho Community MemberConfigure Kettle debug session (on SlideShare IT Lang http://www.slideshare.net/amusarra/configure-kettle-debug-session) -- February 21, 2011
Contributed by Antonio Musarra (Italia)Running Kettle Job by API (on SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/amusarra/running-kettle-job-by-api) -- March 28, 2011
Contributed by Antonio Musarra (Italia)
Pentaho Tech Tips
External Articles
Dynamic Sizing Charts with Pentaho Report Designer — May 17, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberDisplaying Multi-Value Parameters with Pentaho Report Designer — Apr 15, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberPentaho Report Designer and Excel Data Sources — Apr 8, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberCreating Cascade Parameters with Pentaho Report Designer — Feb 18, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberParameter Types with Pentaho Report Designer — Jan 28, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberCreating Parameters with Pentaho Report Designer — Jan 28, 2010
Contributed by Prashant Raju, Pentaho Community MemberReporting in 60 Seconds — June 1, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaireConnect to Your Own Database — May 4, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaire
Pentaho Tech Tips
External Articles
Trend Lines in Mondrian — November 1, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaireThe Power of OLAP, Part 1: Building a Custom MDX Measure — June 8, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaireThe Power of OLAP, Part 2: Bringing the Power to Your Users — June 9, 2006
Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaire