Getting Started with iReport Designer

iReport/Jaspersoft Studio Support Announcement

As of version 5.5.0, Jaspersoft Studio will be the official design client for JasperReports. iReport will remain as a supported product in maintenance-only mode until December 31, 2015, meaning we will continue to fix critical defects in upcoming releases but no new features will be added to the iReport client. Continue to maintain your existing reports with the new Jaspersoft Studio!

Installation

There are 4 ways to install iReport:

• Bundled with JasperReports Server (For those with developers working directly on the server)
• Windows Binary Installer
• Platform Independent Zip Archive
• NetBeans plug-in (Community Edition only)

Windows Binary Installation

iReport provides a convenient Windows installer created using NSIS, the popular installer from Nullsoft (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page). To install iReport, double-click iReport-nb-x.x.x-windows-installer.exe.

At the end of the installation process, you get a new menu item in the Program files menu (Program files → JasperSoft → iReport-nb-x.x.x).

You can have more than one version of iReport installed on your machine at the same time, but all these versions will share the same configuration files.

The installer creates a shortcut to launch iReport, linking the shortcut to iReport.exe (present in the bin directory under the program home directory).

Platform Independent Zip Archive Installation

Unpack the distribution archive into the directory of your choice, for example, c:devel (or /usr/devel on a UNIX system).

Open a command prompt or a shell, go to the directory where the archive was unpacked, go to the iReport directory, then to the bin subdirectory and enter:

C:develiReport-nb-x.x.xbin>ireport.exe

For a Unix system, enter:

root> ./ireport

(In this case, you must configure the installation script to be executable with a chmod +x command.)

Configuration

Adding a Data Source

Relational database is the most common datasource. iReport provides the JDBC driver for the following SQL-compliant database systems:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• HSQL

See iReport - Adding a Data Source. For others relational databases, see Connecting iReport to other datasources.

Connecting to JasperServer (iReport Pro only)

See iReport - Connecting to JasperReports Server.

Optional Configurations

• Viewers configuration

Using iReport

• Basic Report Creation

See Also...

For additional information, see the following resources:

• iReport product page on the Jaspersoft website
• iReport open source project page on community site