Dynamic User Console Logos

The following topic covers how the Pentaho User Console logo can change based on the user id or role of the user that logs in.
This is performed by adding the UrlRewriteFilter Java Web filter to the Pentaho BI Server installation.

Read more at the Pentaho Evaluation Sandbox.

Dynamic Step Metadata with PDI

Did you know that Pentaho Data Integration includes Experimental Transformation steps?   Experimental steps encourage proactive testing and critical feedback from the user community. The reported results are used to harden the product for the next revision. You can always provide your feedback, suggest new features and report issues  here on our tracking site for any of Pentaho’s product offerings.


Transformation steps already ........ read more of this topic and download a working sample here at the Pentaho Evaluation Sandbox.

Customize default users in Pentaho Login page

To customize default user list in loginpage, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to \biserver-ce\tomcat\webapps\pentaho\mantleLogin\
2. Open Loginsetting Properties file.
3. Modify userid, username and password as per your requirement.

e.g., userIds=citbi
userDisplayNames=CITBI
userPasswords=100%sec

4.Save the file and retart the BIServer and admin console.

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Change the admin console password in Pentaho Admin

A tester :

To change the admin console password in Pentaho Admin Console page perform the following:

1. Navigate to BI Server (biserver-ce-3.6.0-stable)\administration-console\resource\config
2. Open Login Properties file.
3. Get the MD5 encrypted text for your password (visit http://md5-encryption.com/ to create md5 encrpted password)
4. You will get something similar to 'vsdsdrfew232fesfq23'
5. Now replace 'admin: OBF:23f223ef23resf5ess' with 'admin: MD5:vsdsdrfew232fesfq23'
6. Restart your server and try login using your new password. If any issue clear your browser cache and try again

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Stable builds of BI Server and Suite Clients 3.7.0 have been posted to SourceForge

Pentaho BI Server 3.7.0-stable: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pen.../3.7.0-stable/

Pentaho Report Designer 3.7.0-stable: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfr.../3.7.0-stable/

Pentaho Design Studio 3.7.0-stable: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pen.../3.7.0-stable/

Pentaho Metadata 3.7.0-stable: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pen.../3.7.0-stable/