JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers

Adding multiple columns to a report

JasperReports allows us to generate reports with multiple columns. Reports we have seen so far seem to have multiple columns. For example, the report we created in the previous section has a column for model, another column for tail number, and one more for serial number. However, all three of these fields are laid out in a single <band> element.

When we add multiple columns to a report, we should think of the data inside a band as a cell, regardless of how the data is laid out inside that band.

The f lightstats database we used for the examples in Chapter 4, Creating Dynamic Reports from Databases, contains the country, state, and city where an aircraft is registered. Let's create a report displaying the tail ...