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What is JasperReports?

JasperReports is one of the most popular open source reporting engineengines. It is written in Java to be cross-platform and it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.

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What is iReport Designer?

iReport is a powerful graphical design tool for report designers and power users to define reports for execution using the JasperReports engine.
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http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer


There are community and enterprise versions for both JasperReports and iReport Designer, depending on your needs.

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  1. Download and install iReport Designer from http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer
  2. Get started with iReport Designer to design your report. Documentation on getting started is available at http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/getting-started-ireport-designer

  3. Once the report has been designed, switch to the XML View to view the source XML definition. Copy this XML. You can also save the report as a .jrxml file and open the file to copy the contents.

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Add the JasperReports Menu in the Userview

  1. In the Joget Workflow web console, launch the Userview Builder for the desired userview in your app.
  2. Drag the JasperReports Menu element into the desired menu location in the userview.

3. Configure the JasperReports Menu

Click on Edit, and configure the properties in the property dialog as follows: 

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Configure JasperReports

Custom ID

Optional ID to represent this element, else a system generated ID will be created. Recommended that this is entered as this ID will be seen in the userview URL.

Label

Label displayed in the userview menu

Default Output

Only HTML is available at this time

Export Options

Check to allow the report to be exported into PDF and/or Excel formats

JasperReports Definition (JRXML)

The XML definition of the report designed using iReport Designer. Copy the XML from the “XML View” tab in iReport, or directly from the .jrxml file contents.

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Custom Header

Optional custom header content to be displayed at the top of the report.

Custom Footer

Optional custom footer content to be displayed at the bottom of the report.



4. View the JasperReports Menu

Once the configuration has been done, the report will be generated when the userview menu page is accessed.