Custom data source + sub report...

[MultiMike]

Hi guys,

Is it not possible to use a DataFactory as a custom data source in the Report Designer?

(It is after all a data factory that is provisioned to the report when it's generated.)

I'm using the Report Designer together with a custom data source but the queries in the resulting report.xml are all wicked, with the main report getting "default", and the sub-report getting something like "mypkg.MyTableModelFactory#createSubReportTableMod el".

Of course this is not what I want, but it's the only way I've got it running in the Report Designer.

So back to the question, can I plug in a DataFactory in the RD somehow?

Regards,
Mikael

[Taqua]

In RD 2.0, there is no way to do this, and therefore the static-datafactory with its highly technical queries are the only way to go.

This changes in the next release (RD Citrus). After the redesign, the report-designer now has pluggable datasource support (in a similar way the engine had since the beginning) and thus it becomes easy to add your own datasources and and your own datasource-configuration-UI into the designer.

[MultiMike]

I'm glad to hear that support for this is upcoming.

Is this already in svn and ready for a sneak preview?

[Taqua]

yes, everything is in the reporting SVN. But thanks to Hudson, we also have binaries now: http://ci.pentaho.com/view/Reporting/job/PRD/