Note - I am very new to jasper reports so I am apologetic if this message is obvious to most.
I am working on a jasper report that models an invoice. The report was initially created using a data source that represented the entire set of data for the invoice. It was granular down to the invoice item level, and each row in the data source would contain information such as the company's address, phone, customer's name, shipping address, subtotal information, as well as information related to the actual invoice items. My initial inkling was that we should model this report as a series of sub-reports. Picture the company logo in the top left, company contact details in the top right, then the customer details in the "middle" left, with order details in the middle right, finally the set of invoice items, and then the subtotal information. The main motivation here was to create a series of subreports that could be used on various report. It also allowed me to create a more specific datasource query to bind to the various sub-reports which would avoid cardinality issues as well as aiding in making it more testable. Question #1: Is this a reasonable approach or is there a better way to model multiple queries to the same final report. Question #2: The trouble I am having is actually laying out the sub-reports so that they flow from the one to the other without creating empty space on the final report. What properties should I be setting? Picture a report that has 3 sub-reports in a band where the middle sub-report actually contains no data. I would want sub-report #1 and #3 to have no space between them (from #2). Moreover, if #2 has a lot of data I would like to have it auto-expand and not cause #3's data to overlap. Thank you very much! Bob -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Subreport-positioning-tp25530927p25530927.html Sent from the jasperreports-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ jasperreports-questions mailing list jasperreports-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jasperreports-questions
