Welcome to the JReport Server User's Guide

This User's Guide describes JReport Server. JReport Server is a 100% Java report generation and management tool that can be deployed to any Java EE application server. By leveraging its high performance report generation engine, JReport scales to meet the most demanding requirements. Using the report scheduling, distributing and alerting capabilities of JReport Server, reporting can be integrated into the workflow of the application.

This guide is written for report administrators or system administrators of Java application that embed JReport reports into their application.

How to use this guide

There are two 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\server folder.

• From the Contents tab, scan through the chapters and topic titles to see the tasks that you can perform with JReport Server. The chapters at the end of the guide are reference chapters.
• 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. For example, in Internet Explorer, right-click in the topic pane and choose Edit > Find. 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