need multiple pdf output out of one report

[birgit]

Hi helpers,

I am just getting familiar with ireport. Great tool, great possiblities. First Reports are working very well, but I cannot find any solution for this problem:

I am working on a customer statistic, one page is one customer. Because there are over 1000 customers I get one pdf with 1000 pages. What I need is 1000 pdf-files with one single page and best would be, if every pdf is named with <custumer_no>, a field from the source data.

Has anybody the solution or a hint for me? Is this possible?

[slow]

you can obtain your multiple files programmatically, creating one report for a single customer (the report query receives a parameter, the custerm id) and then launching in a loop over the customer dataset the report generation with the respective filename and customer id...

[birgit]

Hi slow,

sounds good, but I do not yet know how to do / I am not a programmer.

I already have the report page for one customer, that should work but how to get the loop over the customer dataset?
Is it able to set this in the ireport gui anywhere or do I have to modify the xml?

What parameter do I specify in the report query (group by customer id?)
Can you give me more details or maybe an example?

Thanks for your help!

[slow]

ehm...
for a programmer it is simple to do... (I do it with java...)
but it seems to be more more difficult working only with ireport...
and I think it's impossible without the power of scripting, programming tool,etc.  that use basic concept as loop etc. to do all only with a valid (but limited without external control) tool as ireport...

I hope others can give yiu better support on...