Pentaho report designer

Pentaho report designer is a WYSIWYG open-source report design tool. When designing a report, you can drag and drop various report controls at will, and quickly and conveniently set the report data source. You can preview the report results at any time during the report design process. Is a good report design tool.

The following briefly lists some of the main technical features of pentaho report designer:
1. Use jfreereport as the core engine;
2. It is a WYSIWYG report design tool. Graphical interface, supports drag and drop, supports 5 formats (PDF, HTML, xls, RTF, CSV) preview and report generation.
3. It is an independent report design tool. The Report Server does not depend on pentaho.
4. provides basic drawing functions. Including straight lines, rectangles, and rectangles;
5. provides SQL Query Builder. This makes it easy for users to create custom queries;
6. Supports XQuery, Mondrian, and custom data sources;
7. The online report verification function is provided to notify you of any errors in the current report at any time.
8. You can easily publish reports to the pentaho application server.

Pentaho report designer has the following limitations:
1. There is no Chinese version.
2. Diagonal lines are not supported. If you encounter some Chinese-style reports that require diagonal lines, you will not be able.
3. The report format adjustment function is weak. In order to adjust multiple text boxes to a height, an equal width, and alignment between top, bottom, and left, it is quite difficult.
4. There are few users and some bugs are easy to see.

In general, pentaho report designer is a good open-source report design tool. There is a lot of room for improvement.