iReport Designer v4.1.1 Release Notes

August 10, 2011

The iReport Designer Team is pleased to announce the new iReport Designer v4.1.1.

iReport Designer is available as standalone application and as NetBeans plugin for NetBeans IDE 6.5.x and later. This version includes several improvements and bug fixes.

New features

New features and changes:

• Full support for JasperReports Library v4.1.1
• New map component based on Google Maps (experimental)
• New html component to display html content (experimental)
• Special XLS exporter based on content metadata
• New XLSX documents based datasource
• New ability to set textfield patterns by using an expression
• Support for When no data type in table
• Removed all the deprecated code no longer supported by JasperReports Library (included report font definition, for a long time replaced by styles)
• Several bug fixes

Download

Download iReport Designer (standalone version) from SourceForge.net

Download the iReport Designer plugin for NetBeans

The plugin is available on the NetBeans plugin center and on SourceForge

New features overview

JasperReports Library v4.1.1 is a minor new version of the reporting library in terms of functionalities, but there are many internal changes. The most relevant ones by a design point of view are the removal of the class type from the definition of the expressions. This means that JasperReports Library is now able to detect by itself the class of a specific expression, without having to set it explicitally. Most of this logic was already hidden by iReport Designer  when possible.

Where it was not possible, the user had to specify a class name. iReport Designer still allows to set the class name when it is not able to figure it out the class automatically (this is supported for backward compatibility only), but by using JasperReports Library v4.1.1, class names for expressions are no longer persisted in the JRXML.

If you are asking yourself......YES, there is no longer the need to set the class for a textfield element!!!

	JasperReports Library v4.1.1 provides the support for a new component to render chunks of HTML in a report. The component is primarly designed for HTML export format, but JasperReports Library is able to render the HTML in other formats (not all) in some basic way.
	A new custom component can be used to display maps based on Google(c) Maps. An internet connection is required to use this component, since the image to display is downloaded from Google. The component requires a Latitude and Longitude.

Complete changelog

• - Support for XLS medatada exporter
• - Support for Pattern expression in textfields
• - New data source for Xslx documents
• - Fixed Bug 0005318: xml cannot be modified when locale is changed
• - Fixed Bug 0005370: Preview Data displays columns in random order
• - removed all the deprecated code no longer supported by JasperReports Library
• - support for JasperReports Library v4.1.1
• - New map component based on Google Maps (requires internet connection)
• - New html component to display html content
• - Added support for When no data type in table
• - Fixed Bug 22040 - [case #18654] Barcode4J-Property 'widthtoheightratio' of 2D-Barcode PDF417 is not labeled and has no effect
• - New option to set the expression editor font size
• - New option to disable syntax highlighting in the expression editor (to allow the use of Japanese IME)