Automate Report (BIRT) creation

[kowisoft]

Dear KNIME community,

I wonder if I can automate the BIRT part (so to say) of KNIME as well? What I want to do is run my data through KNIME, give it a nice look in BIRT and then (eventually) send it by email.

In my test case I may want to do this for a lot of reports (like 50 to 100) so manually opening BIRT and saving it from there for each and every report would be very cumbersome.

I went through several posts and was pointed to this interesting entry by @stevens_albert , @armingrudd and @ipazin

Loop through rows for multiple reports

Hello, I hope this message finds you well. I currently have a workflow that takes a .csv file and creates a report. However, I need to be able to create a report for each row in the .csv file. I have looked around and I have seen that the most common nodes for this are the loop and “call local workflow” nodes. I am having a hard time and would really apreciate some guidance. Is there an example workflow for this that I could use? Any help is apreciated! Thank you -Jorge

Somehow I seem to have a problem to understand what it is doing: does the “Data to Report” node in the child workflow already apply the formatting / styles I set up once in BIRT?

Slightly confused

Thank you in advance for your kind help…

[ipazin]

Hello @kowisoft,

@kowisoft

does the “Data to Report” node in the child workflow already apply the formatting / styles I set up once in BIRT?

Yes. Less confused?

First thought was why are you opening another thread for same topic and then realized I closed previous one and suggested to open a new one…

Br,
Ivan