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JasperReports - Header beside the data

I need to generate a report where the left half of the page contains the header data (twice) and the right half of the page contains the detail records.

Something like this

I read that the bands always span the full width of the page so clearly I cannot resize the header band to only half the width of the page.

Setting the report as 2-columns does not seem to help as it only allows me to split the detail records in columns.

I also need the header displayed twice but that may be the subject of another question.

Complete JasperReport newbie using JasperSoft Studio for the first time.

Solution

  • Try this code:

    Main Report

    <?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="report" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="4ddfa540-9b62-4339-9334-18733f7469cc">
<property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
<property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
<property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
<parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["/home/jft/code/jasper-report/Genratedreports/"]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
<parameter name="dataForSubreport1" class="java.util.List"/>
<parameter name="dataForSubreport2" class="java.util.List"/>
<background>
    <band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<title>
    <band height="100">
        <subreport>
            <reportElement uuid="8798ed7b-f389-4037-9381-3862d2f3e43a" x="167" y="20" width="388" height="40"/>
            <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($P{dataForSubreport1})]]></dataSourceExpression>
            <subreportExpression><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "sub1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
        </subreport>
        <subreport>
            <reportElement uuid="f99fdb31-afc3-4127-8148-8e0426cd71a6" positionType="Float" x="167" y="60" width="388" height="40"/>
            <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($P{dataForSubreport2})]]></dataSourceExpression>
            <subreportExpression><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "sub1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
        </subreport>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement uuid="5ff63fe1-a2f6-472a-9d93-47cbcefba84d" x="0" y="20" width="167" height="40"/>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
            <text><![CDATA[Header]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement uuid="5ff63fe1-a2f6-472a-9d93-47cbcefba84d" positionType="Float" x="0" y="60" width="182" height="40"/>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
            <text><![CDATA[Header]]></text>
        </staticText>
    </band>
</title>
</jasperReport>

    SubReport

    <?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="sub1" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="48bc0742-6980-42a7-9a52-6f125fb83bc2">
<property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
<property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
<property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
<field name="name" class="java.lang.String"/>
<background>
    <band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<detail>
    <band height="20" splitType="Stretch">
        <textField>
            <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="100" height="20" uuid="ac3c1a86-6d0d-4b63-b339-744528573666"/>
            <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{name}]]></textFieldExpression>
        </textField>
    </band>
</detail>
</jasperReport>

    You need to make create main report and then its subreport. DOnt forget to touch second static field over subreport, otherwise it will not float down.

    Enjoy.