STARTING WITH NETBEANS IREPORT

Hi friends in today's post , I will tell you about netbeans ireport , How it work , how we start to make Reports with it.

iReport is an netbeans ide, that is used to design report templets or reports , It uses JasperReports API for making reports . In iReport we can design report template and make numbers of reports based on different data inputs.

The main benefits of using  iReport is :-

1. Simple Designing of reports .
2. Output in different format like excel,pdf,doc,docx etc. 
3. Pictorial reports are easy to made

 

You can easy download iReport from this URL -http://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/files/iReport/iReport-5.0.0/

Now There is Simple Steps to make your First Report Using iReport

Note - Use MySql database in this tutorial

1.make the Sql connection and follow the Guided steps

 

2- Fill the mysql connection and test it.

3-Create a new report by clicking on File-->New

4- open the template and A4 and click on show picture button



5- write sql query to retrieve fields from your db

6- Press ok and you can see the all coloumn names under Feilds section of report inspector, Now drag feilds in detail band as show in images

7- click on preview and see your reports

I will discuss more about iReport in next post's Thanks and best of luck