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Introduction

The JasperReports Userview Menu is a userview plugin that allows more complex reporting requirements through integration with JasperReports. By using JasperReports report definitions, sophisticated reports with custom layouts and graphs can be generated and viewed directly within a userview with optional export to PDF and Excel.

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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.
http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer
There are community and enterprise versions for both JasperReports and iReport Designer, depending on your needs.

How to Use the JasperReports Userview Menu

1. Design Report using the iReport Designer.

  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.

2. 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: 



Configure JasperReports

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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.