Jasper Reports is a 'Open Source' product used to design and
print documents using laser style print format options to provide
flexibility customizing reports and documents, with company logos,
duplex printing, etc.
The Jasper Reports forms option can be activated and configured
from the Customer Forms window on the Company Parameters.
Jasper documents are generated from the Server, outputting the form
to the Client screen to enable printing.
Jasper reports uses the same program in the Document/Forms Mappings window for both A4 and letter size paper.
Terms print on the back of all Jasper forms that are setup to
print duplex in the Customer Forms Document
Mapping window of Customer Forms,
where the duplex format can be triggered by adding a _D to the end
of the relevant document names.
For example, Contract printing, default template is
CounterDocument.jasper, so to use duplex with term, the mapping
should be CounterDocument_D.jasper.
The layout of the Terms can be setup to print in one or two
columns as defined in the Jasper Appearance and Formatting
window of Customer Forms.
The content or text of the Terms is stored by language under
resource property on the server as part of the contents of the
Language Label file.
Following are some key points:
Label files for Windows OS are stored in
c:\\scsbin\\jasper\\reports.
Label files for Linux are stored in
/usr/local/tsi/jasperreport/reports.
Any new language/country code property file must be saved under these directories with the same language code and country code configured in the Standard Language Encoding or Alternate Language Encoding field in Jasper Appearance and Formatting window of Customer Forms.
For example, if the encoding field value is “fr CA” there must be a mapping “reportLabel_fr_CA.properties” file in the directory for the corresponding server OS.
The default language files distributed with the software include “reportLabel.properties”, “reportLabel_en_US.properties”, “report_en_CA.properties”, “reportLabel_fr_CA.properties” and also “reportLabel_xx_XX.properties”
Determining Label Field Sizes:
The main purpose for the “reportLabel_xx_XX.properties” property
file is to address any concerns regarding the maximum length of
each label when designing the report layouts.
This property file uses the standard release labels appended by
many “123456789-“ strings after the standard values, to illustrate
the maximum file size.
This clarifies each specific label’s length, and can be used
experimenting in the report design by changing the “Standard
Language Encoding” to “xx XX” in the play area, and printing any
document. The resulting document output will show the maximum
length allowed for each label.
The property file must be open using a text editor that does not utilize a "line wrapper" as it is important to display the name=value pair separately for each line, especially when maintaining the script for the terms.
There are two formats available for Terms as defined by the columns setting configured in the Jasper Appearance and Formatting window of Customer Forms,
Generally when setting up the terms document, there is no
definition restriction.
The text can be copied and pasted from an existing word
document.
When formatting the text, the following apply:
For best results, experiment with the text and label choices in designing the forms.
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