Content

Grouping and Layout

• Add labels in group header and footer
• Grouping styles
• Hide a column
• Create a report with columns (like the telephone guide)
• Avoid row splitting
• Add header and/or footer to a report
• Create Autotext (ie: Page x/y) out of the box
• Create variables and define specific behavior: Redefine how the result is shown, redefine which value is used for the variable calculation.

Crosstabs

• Use Crosstabs
• Multiple measure Crosstabs

Images / Bar code / i18N

• Add banners to report's headers
• Use images in columns
• Use bar codes

Styles / Templates

• Use conditional Styles
• Reference a style that exists in a jrxml file
• Use inherited styles
• Use custom jrxml templates
• Use custom fonts (internationalization)

Exporting / Generating the report

• Export report design to jrxml
• Create a clean Excel report (friendly for data manipulation in Excel)
• Export to HTML
• tricks when exporting to HTML
• Use Virtualizers and avoid performance and hardware constraints.

Charts

• Add a chart

Sub reports

• Add Subreports
• Add Concatenated subreports

Data Manipulation / Data sources

• Define behavior when a resource is missing
• Define behavior when empty data source
• Setup columns when using a XML data sources
• Use report query
• Register invisible fields
• Create Custom Expressions (Manipulate data when using Java code, useful when a plain patter is not enough.)
• Create a grand total (with no groups)

Integration with other frameworks

• DynamicJasper Grails Plugin
• Integrate DynamicJasper with Grails
• Integrate DynamicJasper with Struts 2
• Integrate DynamicJasper with Webwork