Welcome to the JReport Designer User's Guide

This User's Guide describes JReport Designer. JReport Designer is a report development environment that enables sophisticated report design and presentation of critical business data. Report designers can easily access data from any data source and generate highly formatted reports to deliver information to authorized end users in the most relevant and intuitive manner.

This guide is written for report developers or Java application developers that want to embed JReport reports into their application.

How to use this guide

There are three ways you can navigate through the guide by using the navigation panel to the left of this text. However, if you are using Google Chrome, because of its security policy to not allow local file access by default, this guide will not be displayed normally. To solve this, you have to add the parameter --allow-file-access-from-files to the Target property of your Google Chrome shortcut, then launch Chrome with this shortcut and open the guide in it. The guide is located in your <install_root>\help\userguide\designer folder.

• From the Contents tab, scan through the chapters and topic titles to see the tasks that you can perform with JReport Designer. The chapters at the end of the guide are reference chapters.
• From the Index tab, scan through the list of terms to locate a desired keyword. Click the keyword and the corresponding topic is displayed.
• From the Search tab, enter a term you want to search for and press Enter. Topics that contain the term are listed. To search within a particular topic, use your web browser's Search feature. While, if you are using Internet Explorer, in order to make the Search tab work well, the security setting of your Internet Explorer should be kept to the default.

Other JReport documentation

This guide is one in the complete JReport documentation set. The documentation set includes the following:

• Getting Started with JReport
• JReport Tutorial
• JReport Server User's Guide
• JReport Designer User's Guide
• JReport Server Monitor User's Guide
• JReport API Javadoc