Hiya,
iReport is pretty much the best free tool you'll get. I've run into a few small problems with iReport and JasperReports, though: 1. Auto-reading fields from the SQL query. This bombs on some queries on some of the PostgreSQL views I've used. Open the .jrxml file and add the fields manually (or, more painfully, through the fields form). 2. Sub-report formatting and lining up with the master report -> No clean way of doing this with iReport. I have yet to mess around with the .jrxml file to work around this. 3. Including images when launching reports from Tomcat requires base dir offset to be passed as parameter 4. Including subreports when launching reports from Tomcat requires base dir offset to be passed as parameter
Tricks 3 and 4 I could have avoided having to learn the hard way if I'd just downloaded the _full_ JasperReports project and experimented with the provided .war first.
Good luck, Rob Enrico Goosen wrote:
In my opinion JasperReports is the best open source Reporting Tool around. I've used it extensively on various projects in the past. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2005 12:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CTJUG Forum] WYSIWYG report writers Hi, I'm looking at WYSIWYG report writers (preferrably free) for a project I am doing. We would hard code them (the reports), but we need a tool that we can use to put things together quickly, and flexibility because the employer has not given us the best of specs to work with. I spent two days looking at DataVision and realised it wasn't going to work (how can they call that WYSIWYG?), and am about to download something called iReport-Designer, which works on top of JasperReports. Does anyone have anything to recommend? If there's something really top-notch that everybody in the know uses, then I guess I should be looking at it ;-). Regards, Fritz Meissner jnr
