Bursting Report

The Pentaho bursting is for deliver individual message to different people based on bursting rule. The burst rule is used to identify the particular cases, situations, or triggers that require content to be generated or information to be delivered. It is the key to generate particular report for particular person. The information bursting rule relationships can be sourced from SQL, files, or other information resources.

The classic action sequence of bursting report:

  • Define the bursting rule and find out the relationship between people and their own contents.
  • Based on above rule, create a loop, which iterates similar process according how many replationships we got from the first step. In each loop, there are several basic steps.
    • Set message subjects
    • Set message contents
    • Load email addresses from the first step
    • Build reports by passing parameters from the first step
    • Attach the reports
    • Send the email
    • Set confirmation message after sending, if it is necessary.
For tips and tricks on scheduling in 3.5.x, please refer Scheduling 3.5.x

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Creator: Ming Mu on 2009/09/06 06:37
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