Opening published report in Pentaho User Console from other network computer failed

[LacaK]

Hi *,
I am startnig my work with Pentaho BI and Pentaho Report Designer.
(on WinXP platform)
1. I made some small report in Pentaho Report Designer ... OK
2. I publish this report to Pentaho BI server ... OK
3. I can view this report, just after publish in web browser ... OK
4. BUT if I log to Pentaho User Console and I try open published report (from other computer as that, where biserver is running), this does not work
(browser is opening http://localhost/ ... instead of http://server_name/)

I find solution in changing "base-url" in tomcat/webapps/pentaho/web-inf/web.xml ...
there is by default "localhost", when I change it to my server_name, all works.
Can somebody confirm, that it is right solution ?

It will be VERY useful if this will be somewhere (for example in Getting started pdf) documented
or BETTER if some kind of auto-config may be done (without need of modifying web.xml).

TIA
-Laco.

[pstoellberger]

yes, thats the correct way

[LacaK]

yes, thats the correct way

Then I would suggest document it somewhere in "Getting started" :

1. If you want "publish", you must set password in pentaho-solutions/system/publisher_config.xml


2. If you want access published report from web browser you must set "base-url" in tomcat/webapps/pentaho/web-inf/web.xml

These 2 things stoped me, when I as beginer started working with Pentaho ...

Should I post FR in bug tracker ?

[bugg_tb]

surely they must be documented in about a million different places

[LacaK]

surely they must be documented in about a million different places

May be, that this is already documented on milion places ... but I share with you my personal experience (may be similar to other users).

I think, that most of people start their work with Pentaho by same way as I have started: downloading biserver-ce and reading getting_started (located at same place as biserver-ce)

There is in getting_started chapter "Publishing your report" and there is written:
7. In the Publish Password text field, type the publish password, password, and click OK.
But there is nothing about publisher_config.xml
... so if i follow instructions in getting_started i can not publish ...

Only one sentence will very help (taken from http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/Repo...shing+a+Report) :
"If you are publishing against the open source server must enter the server's publish password only, which is located in publisher_config.xml in pentaho-solutions/system."

All this is about "making live easier" for novice users.

[Taqua]

I would say: If the getting started document omits a crucial piece of information that would get you started, then that is a clear bug.

Please file it in the JIRA system and just include a link to this discussion.

Just because it is documented in a million places, does not mean that it might not be documented in the one place everyone is looking for it first.

[bugg_tb]

meh, thats what these wintery mornings does to my good cheer. It is a fair point, my humblest apologies.

Tom

[LacaK]

http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/BISERVER-3935