Jasper Report Part 1 : Introduction

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Introduction about iReport

1 . First region display a Report Inspector

• Style : Style is property in which you creat an style with Some foreground color, background color, font, pen with line style, etc which to be apply in the feature for any element. It is same as creating CSS in HTML.
• Parameter : Which are user defined field which, there are some default field also.
• Fields : Fields retried from database are display here.
• Variables : This are constant used  display row no, column no, page no, etc.
• Other Fields are discuss later in this post.

2. Second region is Working Area

• In this region you should open an multiple reports which are display in tab format.
• Switching between Desinger, XML code and Preview

• Above Image show an structure of report.
• Title : Title is part which are display at the start of report, which are display at only once time in the report at the beginning of report.
• Page Header : Page Header is part which are display top of each page in the report. If your report having 100 pages then Page Header is display at each and every page.
• Column Header : Our report is in tabular format. So Column Header is header of our table, which are display at each page at starting of report table.
• Details1 : Details1 is part which display an actual values from database, this region repeated with values even there is empty space.
• Column Footer : Column Footer is same as Column Header but it is display at the end of table report.
• Page Footer : Page Footer is same as Page Header but is display at the end of page.
• Summary : Summary is part which is display at the end of whole report, which non repeatable.

3. Region 3 is display some element which are to be used in report for designing report and other purpose.
4. Region 4 is display properties of selected element from report.
5. Region 5 is display an console are of report.