iReport is the report designer for JasperReports and JasperReports Server to create very sophisticated layouts containing charts, images, subreports, crosstabs through JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, Hibernate, CSV, and custom sources and to publish reports as PDF, RTF, XML, XLS, CSV, HTML, XHTML, text, DOCX, or OpenOffice. The Report Designer is where the report is visually designed by dragging, positioning, aligning and resizing report elements. The Report Inspector shows the complete structure of the report which is composed of many objects such as fields, parameters and variables, bands which are sections of the document and elements such as textfields, images or charts.
The Elements Palette contains the elements that can be dragged inside a band to display data.The Property Sheet is used to set the properties of the currently selected component in the report such as a field, element, band, group, or other.
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