Creating web reports via wizard

On the JReport Console > Resources page, you can directly create a new web report in a folder into which a catalog containing one or more business views has been published.

To create a web report:

1. Open the folder and select the catalog for the new web report from the Catalog drop-down list, then click New > Report on the task bar of the Resources page.
2. In the Select Report Type dialog, check the option Web Report and click OK. The Web Report Wizard appears.
3. In the Page screen, choose a template for the report. The built-in templates contain information about Jinfonet. You can customize them to meet your own requirement. Use to load your company logo (if needed, after the web report is created, you can make the logo display dynamically). Edit the text and set the font properties for company titles and report titles using . Click the Page Setup link to set the page properties. If you are an administrator with the privilege of publishing resources, you can also create a new template to save your customization.
4. In the Layout screen, select the required layout with which you want to create the report. Then, in the edit layout area, select a tabular cell and select the component you want to display in the cell. Click the Align drop-down list to set the component to the left, center or right of the cell. Repeat this to add component to the other cells.

   If required, you can split the selected cell horizontally or vertically by clicking the Horizontal Split or Vertical Split button, merge adjacent cells by selecting them and clicking Merge. You can also resize the tabular cells by dragging the cell border.

5. In the Bind Data screen, define the specified components (for details about how to define a component, refer to the specific topic in Inserting components). You can use the Back and Next buttons to switch between the components.
6. In the Style screen, apply a style to the report.
7. Click Save to save the report to the server resource tree. For details, see Saving the report.
8. Click Run to open the report in Web Report Studio.

Web report templates

When creating web reports, you need to choose a starting template. A web report template stores information on the header and footer as a starting point for a web report. If you are an administrator with the privilege of publishing resources, you can save report templates to include standard features such as a company logo, company name, privacy notices or any standard items and styles you want your users to start with.

The saved report templates will be added into the templates directory on the server <install_root>\templates, and will be automatically loaded onto the Page screen of the Web Report Wizard for use.

Creating web report templates

To create a report template by customizing the built-in templates in the Web Report Wizard:

The Web Report Wizard provides sample templates for you to define your own templates based on.

1. In the Page screen of the Web Report Wizard, make use of Template1 or Template2 to customize your own report templates. With Template1, you can add your company logo and report title. With Template2, you can add more items such as company name and title and report sub title. Use to load your company logo. You can set the font properties for company titles and report titles using .
2. Click the Save button.
3. In the Save As dialog, choose the file type of Web Report Template (*.wsld), specify a name for the template in the File Name text field, then click Save to save the template.

To create a report template by editing a report in Web Report Studio:

1. Open a report in Web Report Studio.
2. Edit the header and footer of the report.

   The report header and footer are composed by two tabulars. You can split or merge the tabular cells by clicking the button or on the toolbar, then add objects from the Components panel into the tabular cells and format them to customize the header and footer.

3. Click Menu > File > Save As or the Save As button on the Standard toolbar.
4. In the Save As dialog, choose the file type Web Report Template (*.wsld), specify a name for the template in the File Name text field, then click Save to save the template.

Dynamically displaying the company logos

If the web report template you use for creating a report contains the company logo information, you can make the logo display dynamically.

To display the company logo dynamically:

1. Right-click the company logo image in the report and select Properties from the shortcut menu to display the Image Properties dialog.
2. Click beside the Image Name text field, then do one of the following to change the image name.
   • Select a formula that returns an image source from the drop-down list. By default, there will be no formula available in the list. If you want to use a formula to control the image source, you need to first bind a data source to the web report, then create formulas that return image sources in the Resources panel. For details, refer to Using formulas to control showing or hiding components.
   • Select <Edit Expression> from the drop-down list to open the Formula Editor and edit an expression to control the image source, then click the OK button to create the expression. You can see the expression appears in the Image Name text field.

   JReport provides a built-in parameter named JRS_P_LOGOURL, which enables you to specify the logo path easily. You can enter return @JRS_P_LOGOURL; directly in the editing box of the Formula Editor to create the expression.

3. Click OK in the Image Properties dialog to return to the report.

   If the specified formula or expression returns an image, the logo image is changed. If the specified formula or expression uses parameters, the parameters are added to the Parameters panel on the left. You can specify the parameter values in the panel to dynamically change the logo image.

If you are an administrator with the privilege of publishing resources, you can then click Menu > File > Save As or the Save As button on the Standard toolbar to save the template as a new one for future use. However, if the company logo of a template is controlled by a formula, later when users use this template to create web reports, the web reports might not be created successfully, so JReport provides the option When web report cannot run correctly as its template uses formulas referencing bound data on the Profile page for yor to determine what you want JReport to do in this case.

Renaming/Removing a web report template

To rename or remove a web report template, go to the templates directory <install_root>\templates on your server, then rename or delete the template file (.wsld). For each template file, there is an image file (.wsld.png) which is used to display in the templates box of the Page screen of the Web Report Wizard, as a representative of the template. You will need to rename or delete the image file when you rename or delete the template file.