Question

we have several clients(companies) each of them have separate database i.e companyA has databaseA,CompanyB has databaseB …etc , so what i want to achieve is, in pentaho user console all of these companies use the same report but with a different datasoruce , for example
CompanyA,CompanyB..etc would have access to a solution-folder called “Reports” this folder has
a list of reports e.g weeklySales_report so i want weeklySales_report to use CompanyA’s database when the loged-in user is from companyA and use CompanyB’s database when the logged-in user is from companyB,

i tried this but i am getting this error

XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 67 in XML document from file [C:\pentaho2 
biserver-ce\pentaho-solutions\system\pentahoObjects.spring.xml] is invalid; nes 
ed exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 67; columnNumber: 50 
 The value of attribute "value" associated with an element type "property" must 
not contain the '<' character. 

it is complaining about <property name="datasourceNameFormat" value="<![CDATA[{0}-{1}]]>

any ideas on what cause this error, or is there any other way to do this
Thanks

Answer 1

I am not sure about your way, but there is simply possibility to have dynamic jndi. You can have jndi in variable in xaction and can use it in xaction for distinguishing target database.

<inputs> 
<JNDDDI type="string"> 
  <sources> 
    <request>JNDDDI</request> 
  </sources>  
  <default-value><![CDATA[jndi_database1]]></default-value> 
</JNDDDI>

….

<action-definition> 
<component-name>SQLLookupRule</component-name>
<action-type>hourly</action-type>
<action-inputs> 
  <JNDDDI type="string"/>
</action-inputs>
<action-outputs> 
  <prepared_component type="sql-query"/> 
</action-outputs>
<component-definition> 
  <jndi>{JNDDDI}</jndi>  
  <query><![CDATA[select ...from ...]]></query>  
  <live><![CDATA[true]]></live> 
</component-definition> 

And same thing if you use JasperReport Component.