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Merging the result of two prpt reports into one PDF in pentaho report designer


I have been looking all over for this. I have two seperate prpt files and I am able to generate the pdf's for these prpt files. I would like to combine both the reports into a single PDF with two pages. I would like to do this either in Report Designer or in Pentaho Data Integration. Please can someone help me out with this.

Thank you.


Solution

  • You can do this via a subreport in Report Designer - no need to use the DI tool. You create a new subreport in the parent report, then paste in all the elements from the child. Not very clean admittedly.

    Alternatively if it's a very complex report you can unzip the prpt, insert the child report and re-zip it. But this is tricky - and there's some constraints about what must be done where!