Introduction to Jasper ReportsAnkur Gupta

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Agenda

Introduction to reporting What is Jasper Reports Tools that can be used to create Jasper Reports What is iReport Various editions of iReport (Community/Professional) Basic elements of the report. Introduction to usage of Parameters and variables . Demonstration in iReports (Using sample database). Peek into the next seminar.

What is Reporting ?

Few Open Source Reporting Softwares

Few Commercial Reporting Softwares

What is Jasper Reports?

Tools can be used to create Jasper Reports iReport

JasperSoft Studio

Netbeans plugin

Dynamic Jasper Reports

What is iReport?

Main Features :

• 98% of Jasper Reports tags supported • Visual designer WYSIWYG with tools for draw rectangles, lines, ellipses, text fields feilds, charts, sub reports, lists, cross tabs ... • Built-in editor with syntax highlighting for write expression • Support for Unicode and non Latin language (Russian, Chinese, Korean,...) • Document structure browser • Integrated compiler and exporter • Support of all JDBC compliant databases • Support of all kind of JRDataSource • Wizard to create automatically reports • Support for sub reports • Save backup • Support for templates • Facilities for fonts 

Various Editions of iReport

1. Professional Edition

2. Community EditionJasper Community- http://community.jaspersoft.com/

Components of Jasper Reporting JRXML

.Jasper file

Jasper Report Server

iReport(For that matter any tool chosen)

Getting to know the UI of iReport

How to customize Jasper Reports (Overview) Scriptlets.

Custom JRDataSource.

JR Datasource Provider.

JFree Charts.

Getting to know Parameters, Variables and Groups

Demo of making a Simple Jasper Report in iReport.

Peek into the next seminar. Demonstration of making Japer Reports using different datasources.

Usages of Scriptlets.

Integration of Scriptlets in Reports enabling the usage of user defined functions.

Charts.

Demonstration over the Jasper Report Server

and much more …

Questions

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