Jaspersoft Studio Tutorials Archive

Welcome to the Jaspersoft Studio tutorials archive.
Here you will find the list of all Jaspersoft Studio related tutorials, tips & tricks and other useful information.
If you want to see your tutorials published here, send us an email.


Getting Started

These tutorials explain the basics notions to understand how Jaspersoft Studio works. They are highly recommended, especially to new users.

 What is Jaspersoft Studio?
An introduction to Jaspersoft Studio, the new report designer for JasperReports based on Eclipse.

 Getting started with Jaspersoft Studio
The minimum requirements, how to install it and some compilation information.

 Designing a Report
Create your first report in a few seconds.

 Report Structure
Description of the basic structure of a report: bands, columns and properties.

 Drag & Drop
How the drag & drop works inside Jaspersoft Studio

 Exporting reports
How to compile and export reports.

 Measure Units
Getting familiar with the different measure units.

Tutorials

A collection of tutorials that will help you get the more out of Jaspersoft Studio.

 Contributing to Jaspersoft Studio and building from sources
How to configure a fully working environment in order to compile Jaspersoft Studio from sources and contribute to the project.

 The Expression Editor: what it is and how it works
Illustrates the new Expression Editor introduced in Jaspersoft Studio.

 The Expression Editor: how to extend it and contribute your own functions
Explains how to extend the Expression Editor adding new functions.

 Using report variables
Simple tutorial about using report variables.

 Using report parameters
Simple tutorial about using report parameters.

 Using report groups
Simple tutorial about using report groups.

 Element attributes and styles
An overview of how attributes and styles get assigned to JasperReports elements.

 The styles template
Learn how to create a style template and how to use it inside a report

 The Inheritance tab
Using the Inheritance Properties tab to better understand the (real) element attributes.

 Creating Charts and Subreports
Simple tutorial on how to use a multi-series chart and subreport.

 Creating Charts and Datasets
Simple tutorial on how to use the datasets and chart component.

 Using Subreports
A detailed tutorial on how to use subreport elements in Jaspersoft Studio.

 Using XML Datasources
A tutorial on how to use XML datasources and Xpath query language.

 Using the List component
A tutorial on how to use the List component in Jaspersoft Studio.

 Using Table and Crosstab components
A tutorial on using Table and Crosstabs in Jaspersoft Studio.

 Connect Jaspersoft Studio to JasperReports Server
A tutorial on the connection between Jaspersoft Studio and JasperReports Server

 How to create and use a JRDataSource adapter
A tutorial on how to create a custom data adapter and use it into a report.

 How to create and use a JRDataSourceProvider adapter
A tutorial on how to create a custom data source and use it into a report.

 Creating a custom Report Template
A tutorial on how to create a custom template for the report and use it inside Jaspersoft Studio

 How to translate Jaspersoft Studio
A tutorial on how to create a translation for the Jaspersoft Studio application

 How to install a Jaspersoft Studio translation
A tutorial on how to install and use a previously created Jaspersoft Studio translation

 How to publish a Jaspersoft Studio translation
A tutorial on how to publish on the community site a translation previously created

 Compile with older JasperReports version from Jaspersoft Studio
A tutorial on how to use a previous version of JasperReports to compile a report

 Custom Font with the Font Extension
A tutorial on how to use the Font Extension for the report and the PDF Exporter

 The Composite Elements
A tutorial on how to create, use and modify the Composite Elements

 Import projects and settings from a previous version of Jaspersoft Studio
A tutorial on how to easily import Projects, Data Adapters, Server Connections and settings from a different workspace used by an existing Jaspersoft Studio installation.

 Report Books in Jaspersoft Studio
A tutorial on how to get started in JasperReports Books with Jaspersoft Studio.

 Jaspersoft Studio Layouts
A tutorial about the layouts included inside Jaspersoft Studio

Community Contributions

  How to create a basic report, listing data from MySQL database table
A Slideshare presentation created by Hozawa. Based on Jaspersoft Studio 6.1.0.

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