Solutions Summit 2014

Introducing Ad hoc Reporting with Jaspersoft Studio

John Snyder

Chesapeake System Solutions, Inc. • Proprietary and Confidential

Agenda• Defining Jaspersoft Studio

• What is JasperReports?• What is Jaspersoft Studio?• How do they work?

• Using Jaspersoft Studio• Learning the user interface• Creating a new report template

• T-Recs and Jaspersoft Studio• Connecting to your T-Recs database• T-Recs integration with a new report template

• Getting Started• How you get Jaspersoft Studio?• What resources are available?• What do you need to know?

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What Is JasperReports?

• An open source, Java based, reporting engine• Supported and distributed by Jaspersoft (www.jaspersoft.com)•Used for all T-Recs reporting•Delivered with T-Recs as part of the installation•Outputs PDF, HTML, XLS(X), RTF, TXT, XML, and CSV• Supports internationalization, multi-language and multi-currency

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What Is Jaspersoft Studio?• The successor to iReport (which is being sunsetted in 12/15)• A small footprint, standalone, desktop report designer program

based on JasperReports • No runtime platform, just design and test• Similar to Crystal Reports (now SAP Business Objects), MS Access

report designer, etc.• Not included with T-Recs• Produces the same report template files Chesapeake already uses

in T-Recs, jrxml files• Used by our implementers and developers to create custom

reports for our customers• T-Recs customers may use it to create their own custom reports

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How Does It Work?

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Using Jaspersoft Studio – Demonstration

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Connecting Jaspersoft StudioTo Your T-Recs Database•Developing a new report template requires a direct connection to your T-Recs database from your iReport workstation•Database access should be read only• Licensed customers:

• Work with your DBA team to acquire appropriate authorization• Establish a connection using the same authentication as T-Recs

uses

•Hosted customers:• Create a test database environment

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T-Recs Integration With A New Jaspersoft Studio Template (PDF)

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T-Recs Integration With A New Jaspersoft Studio Template (Internal)

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How You Get Jaspersoft Studio• Only the Community Edition is free• Trial editions of the Commercial Edition are available• Download Jaspersoft Studio Community Edition

installation setup from: community.jaspersoft.com/download• Context sensitive help is built in• Get the latest version, currently 5.6• Backward compatibility is supported• T-Recs is currently using version 4.7

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What Resources Are Available?• Books:

• “Jaspersoft Studio User Guide” from: http://community-static.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/docs/jaspersoft-studio-user-guide_0.pdf (current version 5.6)

• “JasperReports Ultimate Guide” from: http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/JasperReports-Ultimate-Guide-3.pdf (last updated 2011)

• Jaspersoft Resources:• http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jaspersoft-studio/resources

• Chesapeake Training:• At Chesapeake• Onsite

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What Do You Need To Know?• About Jaspersoft Studio• Report design concepts and practices• Database connectivity and structure• Basic SQL• Jaspersoft Studio design user interface and processing

• About T-Recs• The database schema• How to set up External Tasks

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Other Possibilities• JasperReports Server• Report depository• Build your own dashboards

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