Pentaho Reporting 3.6 Milestone 1 is now posted

[dmoran]

The first Milestone of the Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) version 3.6.0 is now available for download from SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfr...gner/3.6.0-M1/

Please try this version out and let us know if your issues have been fixed and if you find other problems. Post responses to the Pentaho Reporting User Forum:
http://forums.pentaho.org/forumdisplay.php?f=78

Thanks for the tremendous feedback from the Pentaho community members who participated in the WebEx's, IRC channel discussions, forum posts and created JIRA cases. Especially, Gunter Rombauts and Dan Keely for lots of testing and feedback.

Special thanks to Pedro Alves (Kaapa) and the WebDetails team http://webdetails.pt for fixing numerous bugs, getting Mondrian parameters working and for the code that lets html reports to be sent by email with all resources attached.

For a list of features and bugfixes, check out the release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfr...Notes.txt/view

For a list of JIRA Cases closed for M1:
http://jira.pentaho.com/secure/Relea...&version=10841

NOTE: In order to use reports created with the 3.6.0 M1 PRD with the BI Server, you will need to download a replacement reporting component. The component and instructions for installing it can be found:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfr...1.zip/download

Doug

[ThinkingPhoneNetworks]

In the PRD 3.6 M1 release notes, i see we can now access roles and username as fields, does that mean we can just say ${username} or IN(${roles}) in our queries? or do we have to use the post-processing formula in a parameter still?

http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/PRD-2300

An example of the usage would be great, if possible.

[Taqua]

The known ENV properties are now copied into the current data-row by default, and thus are automatically visible. The ENV property of "username" is available as field "env::username".

[ThinkingPhoneNetworks]

Woohoo!! I just tested this and it works great! One of my biggest frustrations with the new PRD was how I can handle my roles elegantly, since I use it in all of my reports. This approach solves it perfectly.

Great work guys!

[begunrom]

ThinkingPhoneNetworks,

Did you also try the roles thing in the platform or only in the designer?

[ThinkingPhoneNetworks]

begunrom,
I only tried this in the report designer. I was going to wait until 3.5.2 GA came out so I didn't have to mess around with the libraries.

- Dan

[haubuchon]

I copied all the mentioned jars to the bi-server 3.5 to be able to run the 3.6 reports but I have a strange problem.

All the hidden parameters are shown in the user console. Am I missing some libraries ? Are the jars reponsible of rendering and getting the parameters on the console side are included with the zip file ? What jars are needed ?

[begunrom]

You have overlooked something. I have done it and at least the hidden parameters do not show up. There are problems with date parameters.

[haubuchon]

Thanks. I will check again. Since it is working for you, I must indeed have forgot something.

[Taqua]

Whether a parameter is hidden or not is controlled by the server side code. Its basically a "if hidden attribute set, continue with next parameter" when creating the parameter-xml-document for the report-viewer.

So if you see hidden parameters then you are actually still running a old version of the pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-core-platform-plugin-jar.