Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Creating Static and Dynamic Titles and Headers
Chapter 2: Working with the Body and Footer of your Report
Chapter 3: Enhancing the Look and Feel of your Report
Chapter 4: Working with a Variety of Data Sources
Chapter 5: Multi-page Reports
Chapter 6: Multi-column Reports
Chapter 7: Summary Report, Crosstabs, and Graphs
Chapter 8: Java Wrappers for your JasperReports
Chapter 9: Using Mathematical and Logical Expressions
Index
- Chapter 1: Creating Static and Dynamic Titles and Headers
- Introduction
- Downloading, installing, and running JasperReports and iReport
- Creating your first "Hello World" report
- Creating and sizing the title for your report
- Using dynamic titles that can change during report processing
- Inserting a company logo in the title of your report
- Adding a simple header to your report
- Setting margins for your report and aligning the report header relative to report margins
- Chapter 2: Working with the Body and Footer of your Report
- Introduction
- Displaying a field along with its label in the body of your report and handling null values
- Creating a simple table of records along with labels for each column
- Inserting a heading for a group of records
- Using parameters to filter records during report processing
- Implementing groups within groups — a nested hierarchy
- Adding a simple footer to your report
- Displaying general information or summary at the end of your report
- Chapter 3: Enhancing the Look and Feel of your Report
- Introduction
- Deploying and reusing styles in your report
- Setting background color for data
- Using HTML tags and bullet lists
- Expanding a field vertically to accommodate large text
- Applying formatting pattern to the value of a data field
- Using background images and watermarks in your report
- Chapter 4: Working with a Variety of Data Sources
- Introduction
- Creating a report from relational data
- Connecting to an XML datasource
- Creating a report from XML data using XPath
- Using multiple relational databases to generate a report
- Creating a report from model beans of Java applications
- Chapter 5: Multi-page Reports
- Introduction
- Building a cover page for your multi-page report
- Creating a simple, one-page TOC for your report
- Applying a style to your simple TOC
- Resetting page numbering with the start of a particular record
- Implementing complex multi-dimensional page numbering
- Showing multiple types of data in the same report
- Managing pagination of multiple types of data in a report
- Chapter 6: Multi-column Reports
- Introduction
- Dividing the body of a report into multiple columns
- Displaying groups of data in separate columns
- Displaying data as name-value pairs in multiple columns
- Filling your report horizontally in multiple columns
- Using subreports to design a multi-column report
- Chapter 7: Summary Report, Crosstabs, and Graphs
- Introduction
- Designing a simple summary report
- Designing a multi-level summary report
- Designing a crosstab—a table with dynamic rows and columns
- Displaying data trends as a graph in your report
- Embedding a bar graph inside a tabular view
- Chapter 8: Java Wrappers for your JasperReports
- Introduction
- Creating a Java wrapper for your report
- Compiling and viewing your report in a Java Swing application
- Printing the hardcopy of your report using a Java Swing application
- Creating an Excel report from a Java Swing application
- Creating a JasperReport on the fly in a Java web application
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