The Pentaho Reporting Output step is the only Data Integration task completely dedicated to Pentaho Reporting. Being a step, it lives in transformations and it's grouped in the output steps.

The main goal of the step is to generate a Pentaho report, starting from a .prpt file stored locally on the filesystem. As a regular step, it accepts a stream of data as input and performs the task for each row of the flow. Pentaho Reporting output steps can be customized directly from the Spoon interface, by right-clicking on it and selecting the Edit item.

In the following screenshot, you can see how the edit window looks in the Spoon interface:

In the following table, you can read brief descriptions for each option, just as introductions of the data integration capabilities to manage Pentaho reports: