Customize Pentaho Analyzer

PDF Logo and Cover Page Customization

You will need to replace a couple of image files in order to customize the cover page and company logo for your Analyzer PDF exports. These image files need to placed in the /pentaho-solutions/system/analyzer/resources/ directory. You then need to update analyzer.properties with the names of these images given to the keys below. If the file names are left blank, then no images are used.

• PDF cover image: renderer.pdf.cover.image
• PDF logo image: renderer.logo.image

Set Default Fonts for PDF Export

When displaying data in Analyzer, your reports will use the default browser fonts. However, the PDF export function may not have the same fonts available to it when creating a PDF from your Analyzer report, resulting in output that doesn't look the same way in PDF format as it does in the browser. The default font for PDFs is Helvetica, but you can specify any TrueType font or collection to replace it. Follow the instructions below to specify a different font for PDF exports.

If you have localized your schema in a language that uses a multi-byte character set (most Asian languages fit into this category), this process is required to make PDF output appear without errors.

1. Stop the Pentaho User Console and Pentaho Server.
2. Navigate to the /pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/analyzer/ directory and open the analyzer.properties file with any text editor.
3. Uncomment the renderer.pdf.font.path line.

   renderer.pdf.font.path=C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/MSGOTHIC.TTC,1
   

4. Replace the value of this line with the TrueType font or collection that you want to use as the default. If you are specifying a collection, you must put a ,1 after the font name, as shown in the above example. This does not apply to individual fonts (TTF files).

   renderer.pdf.font.path=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
   

5. Save and close the file, and restart the Pentaho Server.

Your PDF exports from Analyzer should have the font you specified.

Specify with an URL

The sort option can be set in the URL by adding a "fieldListView" query parameter at the end of the URL. For example, you can do something like this in a codeblock in HTML or XML.

http://localhost:8080/pentaho/api/repos/xanalyzer/editor?&showFieldList=true&showFieldLayout=true&catalog=SampleData&cube=Quadrant%20Analysis&autoRefresh=true&debug=true&

Specify with Annotation

To specify the sort option using an annotation, add a Cube-level annotation called "AnalyzerFieldListView" in your Mondrian schema file. This annotation must be the first child element under a cube as shown here.

<Cube name="Quadrant Analysis">

    <Annotations>

              <Annotation name="AnalyzerFieldListView">cmdViewName</Annotation>

    </Annotations>

    <Table name="Quadrant_Acuals" />

    <DimensionUsage name="Region" source="Region" />

    <DimensionUsage name="Department" source="Department" />

    <DimensionUsage name="Positions" source="Positions" />

Specify through the Properties File

This sort option is specified by setting the cmdViewType for the "report.field.list.view" property.

# Default field list view mode used to sort the available field

# list in the editor.  Possible values include: cmdViewCategory,

# cmdViewType, cmdViewSchema and cmdViewName

# This can also be overriden on a cube level with the annotation

# AnalyzerFieldListView

report.field.list.view=cmdViewType