creating your first report from ireport ultimate guide creates an empty document

[mariuss]

Hello community,

I'm trying to start with iReport and when I go through the tutorial "2.10 Creating Your First Report" from the ebook ireport ultimate guide, then I can preview just an empty document with 13 pages.

Does anybody have an idea what do i miss?

Thank you

Marius

[vaibhav.lather]

plz post ur xml and java code

[mariuss]

Thank you vaibhav.lather for your attention!

I'll try to give you a little bit more of information. The OS is Windows 7 64 bit.

The genereted jrxml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report2" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="5f12eac9-cd29-463b-9bf2-ab69451a0cbc">
    <queryString language="SQL">
        <![CDATA[select * from address order by city]]>
    </queryString>
    <field name="ID" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
    <field name="FIRSTNAME" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <field name="LASTNAME" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <field name="STREET" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <field name="CITY" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <group name="CITY">
        <groupExpression><![CDATA[$F{CITY}]]></groupExpression>
    </group>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </title>
    <pageHeader>
        <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageHeader>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="125" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </detail>
    <columnFooter>
        <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnFooter>
    <pageFooter>
        <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageFooter>
    <summary>
        <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

and it is different and much shorter as the Code Example 3-1 from iReport Ultimate Guide.

I don't know where to find the java code, I found just the .jasper file with the compiled code and uploaded as an attachment.

Could that be, that the guide is not anymore updated and that I miss some steps?

Would you be nice to give me some hint how to get it working?

Thank you

Marius

[hishamkmr]

Dear Marius

I just downloaded ur jasper file. In that design template is empty

Go to the report inspector and drill the "Field" from there you can see the fields got using your query in i-report

drag and drop the needed fields in to the detail band of ireport and run the report.it will show the data..

 

hope it help..let me know the result

[mariuss]

Thank you hishamkmr, yes that is what I missed. So you have finally drag and drop the fields to the Detail 1 part of the report in order to complete the tutorial.

Thanks, this helped :)