Previewing and saving a Pentaho report

Now that a report is developed with few and basic elements, you probably want to preview it to check the final result. As you learnt in Chapter 2Getting Started with Report Designer, click on the eye icon () in the top left corner of the report canvas, and a preview similar to the following screenshot will be shown:

As you can see, the report is extremely basic in terms of layout and elements. In the following paragraphs, we will see how to make it more appealing. However, what we would like to bring ...

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