Community meetup fall out: Now there are some new features in the PRD queue ..

I has been a long long time since the community meeting and I guess it is time to actually punch in all the suggestions and feature requests that lured on hastly scribbled notes into the more formal JIRA system.

Remember: if you feel particularly strong about one of those issues, vote for it. If you feel extra ordinarily strong about it and have a support contract, nag your support contact at Pentaho to add your case number to the JIRA-case. This ensures that the triage meeting gives that case a higher priority.

Key

Summary

PRD-3015

As a reporting user I want to be able to
sort data from within the report

PRD-3014

As a reporting user I want to store scripts
in a shared external location so that all reports use the same version of the scripts

PRD-3013

As a reporting user I want a predefined
JavaScript library for common tasks in HTML reports ..

PRD-3012

As a reporting user I want to use PDF as
vector-image in my reports

PRD-3011

As a reporting user I want to use the
OpenSteetMap component in my reports

PRD-3010

As a reporting user I want to assign style
by element type or classes instead of styling every element manually

PRD-3009

As a reporting user I want to be able to
define styles as CSS files

PRD-3008

As a reporting user I want to enable/disable
and show/hide parameters based on previous parameter values

PRD-3007

As a reporting user I want to have a AdHoc
reporting tool that uses the Xul-wizard so that I have the same features in PRD, BIServer and Agile-BI

PRD-3006

As a reporting user I want to have a Adhoc
reporting tool that uses and generated PRPT files.

PRD-3005

As a reporting user I want to be able to
drag-n-drop elements between bands

PRD-3004

As a reporting user I want to have a command
line tool to run reports from a shell script

PRD-3003

As a reporting user I want to have
parametrized datasources

PRD-3002

As a reporting user I want to be able to
switch subreports between inline and banded mode

PRD-3001

As a reporting user I want to be able to
provide parameter values for the design-time use

PRD-3000

As a reporting developer I want to celebrate
the fact that we have 3000 JIRA cases.

PRD-2999

As a reporting user I want to feed all
charts from a single generic datasource

PRD-2998

As a reporting user I want to merge the
“legacy”, “banded” and “denormalized” OLAP datasources into a single one.

PRD-2997

As a reporting user I want to have a
function that merges manual changes in a wizard generated report back into the wizard definition

PRD-2996

As a reporting user I want to have the
ability to have a remainder-width element for row layout bands

PRD-2995

As a reporting user I want to have style
properties that allow me to crop images on the fly

PRD-2994

As a reporting user I want to have a
lightweight image editor in PRD to crop and scale images before embedding them

PRD-2993

As a administrator deploying PRD I want to
have documentation on how to customize the distribution

PRD-2992

As a reporting user I want to use CCC
(community chart components) aka Protovis in my reports

PRD-2991

As a reporting user I want to use CDA as a
datasource

PRD-2990

As a reporting user I want to edit subreport
parameters from the tree ..

PRD-2989

As a reporting user I want to have a smarter
copy-paste feature ..

PRD-2988

As a reporting user I want to copy
master-reports and paste them as subreports ..

PRD-2987

As a reporting user I want to have a CDA
style data staging and caching that aggressively caches the query results …

PRD-2986

As a reporting user I want to have query
caching integrated into the Hadoop-JDBC driver so that repeated queries have a better response time ..

PRD-2985

As a reporting user I want to have a
auto-header feature for fields defined in the details band ..

PRD-2984

As a reporting user I want to have a easy UI
to define CDA files and thus simple transformations on query results ..

PRD-2983

As a reporting user I want to use JPEG2000,
BMP and TIFF images in a report

PRD-2982

As a reporting user I want to have the
option to automatically convert images into a format that PRD understands ..

PRD-2981

As a reporting user I want to be able to add
images to a report by drag-and-drop from the explorer/finder …

PRD-2980

As a reporting user I want to have
documentation on what image formats are supported in the reporting engine

PRD-2979

As a reporting user I want to have a demo
that shows how to use the SingleValueQuery and MultiValueQuery function

This list is probably not even complete. So if you encounter something new or see something that does not feel right, remember to file a JIRA case for it.

No case, no fix!

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After working as all-hands guy and lead developer on Pentaho Reporting for over an decade, I have learned a thing or two about report generation, layouting and general BI practices. I have witnessed the remarkable growth of Pentaho Reporting from a small niche product to a enterprise class Business Intelligence product. This blog documents my own perspective on Pentaho Reporting's development process and our our steps towards upcoming releases.

2 thoughts on “Community meetup fall out: Now there are some new features in the PRD queue ..

  1. Dan

    This is truly brilliant stuff. I’ve never before seen a software vendor harvesting bugs from genuine end users at a conference – yet of course it’s the perfect place to do it. Excellent!

  2. Thomas Morgner

    In general software vendors dont want to hear your bugs in any case. Before you hand over the money you are important for them, after that you are just a cost factor. And bad support and not fixing the big, fat bugs – you hear those stories all the time. I dont want to be part of such an industry.

    Personally I hate to leave things unfixed or to produce “checkbox items”. I see the customer’s role slightly different: After our users paid (with money and/or time) to use our software, they have good reasons to safeguard and maximize their investment returns by providing us accurate and useful information. Not the random (and usually exaggerated) stuff you hear before the sale – no, real world problems from real world users with real world businesses. Who else than actual users can tell us where we shall go and where we have strength and weaknesses.

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