racerzack

Sadly, I also have to agree with a less-than-approving rating of the iReport documentation/"Definitive User Guide." I am not a beginner to report design, SQL, or programming, but I *AM* new to specifically Java and iReport. I bought the Guide in the hopes that it would give me the information I needed to move beyond the most basic of reports. What I have found is nothing but frustration. The Guide is constantly talking over my head, making the assumption that I already know far more syntax and information than I really do. I am left with searching Google for answers, gleaning samples from unrelated sections of the Guide, and using trial-and-error to just get what I would call "basic" things to work. For example, the syntax of a comparison is never spelled out in the Guide. The examples I have found allow me to know if something is null or equal, but I'm unable to use greater than or less than (the only examples I find are those with math, but I don't want to calculate anything!)... I want to bash my head against a wall when I'm unable to do something as simple as know if field A > field B! I think my most favorite frustrating error is "Cannot cast from int to Integer"... so, why are "int" and "Integer" different and how do I make an actual number (like 0, which is apparently seen as "int") be usable against a field (like $F{AMT}, which is seen as Integer)? These are, I am sure, very simplistic questions. My problem is that I fall beyond "The Idiot's Guide to iReport" (since I understand complex SQL and much of how a report designer works) but I fall short of where the "Definitive Guide" seems to start. Are there any other resources I can be referred to? An "Idiot's Guide" would be fine as long as it goes far enough to get into the things I don't know, like basic programming syntax for expressions. Thanks for any help!

Hi, I'm new to the forum and relatively new to iReports. I am having an odd problem with some reports designed by another developer in my team. When he runs the reports (on the server or on his workstation, viewing either as PDF or using the JasperViewer), everything displays fine. However, when *I* try to open the reports on my workstation (again, either as PDF or with the JasperViewer), a bunch of the fields don't display. I've isolated the problem to the font. The reports are using San Serif 10pt. I can't see why that font wouldn't work on my own workstation, but if I go into the report and switch to Arial (or some other font) then the reports display fine. What I am curious about (and too new to the product to know) is if this is a quirk within my OWN workstation, something weird within iReports, or if this is something that could be an issue when we deploy these reports to customers. In other words, do I tackle the problem by changing all the report fonts to Arial or do I tackle it by checking for font issues on my own PC? FYI, I've done a search through the archives to see if I can find any threads on this topic, but either I'm not using good search terms or it hasn't been discussed. If this is a repeat, please accept my apologies! Thanks in advance for any advice! :) Zack Post edited by: racerzack, at: 2007/05/03 21:01

Hi, I'm new to the forum and iReport and found this thread while searching for info on styles. I see it's from January, so I am wondering if this item has been addressed in any of the more recent versions of iReport? I am right now working on a system where I have one master report with varying subreports and it would be lovely to implement a common stylesheet for all of them. Thanks! Zack