Jasper Reports Excel Output Problems

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Rookie picture Rookie · Aug 4, 2012 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

I am new to Jasper Reports and iReports that I am using to design the reports. I am currently designing a report in iReport and want to export it in excel (xls). Here is the screen shot of what I want to design and the second screen is what I am getting.

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Here is what I have managed to get. As you can see there are many problems in the output.

  • Column A is missing
  • There are some problems with column D and E and Column C is also invisible.
  • I dont know how to add blank rows in my design from IReports

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Here is the source to what I have done so far:

    <?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="report1" language="groovy" pageWidth="792" pageHeight="612" orientation="Landscape" columnWidth="792" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="0" bottomMargin="0" uuid="1e5ee76a-b072-4f31-a1ce-d0c921d2ce55">
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
    <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.remove.empty.space.between.columns" value="true"/>
    <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.detect.cell.type" value="true"/>
    <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.remove.empty.space.between.rows" value="true"/>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="21" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="557d6e9d-b389-4710-a66f-f15678ebb003" x="1" y="1" width="119" height="20"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font size="14" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Sample Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </title>
    <pageHeader>
        <band height="71" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="3d8bfb44-a4ce-409f-a626-4bdba125b0a4" x="0" y="11" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Start Date]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="ee347fa8-037a-4fe1-8de2-98867d4903a3" x="0" y="31" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Start Date]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="beaa366e-2976-4b46-86ee-55af14249675" x="0" y="51" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Start Date]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <textField pattern="dd-MMM-yy">
                <reportElement uuid="4f4124a7-5071-4ced-ba92-c39c6f6ffc54" x="100" y="11" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[new java.util.Date()]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField pattern="dd-MMM-yy">
                <reportElement uuid="9492ff27-6c11-417f-8ae9-43dddfcda405" x="100" y="31" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[new java.util.Date()]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField pattern="dd-MMM-yy">
                <reportElement uuid="b8baea82-84c4-42fa-bccd-62abc96eeded" x="100" y="51" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[new java.util.Date()]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </pageHeader>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="69" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="1c5d41a5-a86b-4cd0-bac8-19950c3eb5b3" x="0" y="49" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="12" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="6d798309-0e10-4c11-8642-53edd66f8ed0" x="100" y="49" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="12" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="7ca5ae53-47e2-46f9-90c6-2d8f5d66dc5e" x="200" y="49" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="12" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="bae9670f-10fa-4932-9e1b-00c8e38cd009" x="300" y="49" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="12" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="bcf09004-a0ca-479f-9d6d-fe2aab932452" x="400" y="49" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="12" isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Heading]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="151" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="1" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="9b6a2c68-6327-4a8a-940f-41f5be8bc7ca" x="100" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="7e7ddc5f-31e7-4b76-bbd7-a6f0a2c11169" x="200" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="5f8c4ae6-d2c0-4ded-9e3e-8f1a69995043" x="300" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="f8f51e3b-5dcc-43f0-9f56-00a1bc703ad1" x="400" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="0" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="100" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="200" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="300" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="418012e1-fbc2-4cb9-bf7f-2740061bbfd1" x="400" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/>
                <text><![CDATA[Data]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </detail>
    <columnFooter>
        <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnFooter>
    <pageFooter>
        <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageFooter>
    <summary>
        <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

Any help in this matter would be appreciated alot. Thanks a bunch!!

Answer

Andre picture Andre · Aug 6, 2012

Every single time I had problems with that it was because the fields weren't properly aligned. So make sure the fields that should be vertically aligned have the same x value and have the same widths.

Your first Data field is located at x=1 (the other fields on that column are at x=0). Maybe this alone won't solve all the problems, but I am pretty sure the first Data will start to appear in the Excel output.

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