2. Quick Start

This chapter provides the hands-on examples of using the Report generator. All the examples are based on the sample Library application which is available in CUBA Studio samples.

For an easy start, the report generator comes with the Reports wizard - a visual tool for quick report creation, including both data structure and template design. Having created a report with the wizard, you can then decompose it and learn how the datasets are created, explore the report parameters, modify the template or the output type, following the further sections of this manual.

To run the wizard, click Create → Using wizard in the Reports screen.

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Figure 1. Reports Wizard

Three types of reports can be created using the wizard:

  1. Report for a single entity.

  2. Report for a list of given entities.

  3. Report for a list of entities filtered by query.

Report design is a three steps process:

  1. Creating a data structure of a report.

  2. Editing of report regions.

  3. Saving the report.

The created report can be modified in the usual manner using the report editor and run through the generic report browser, or using TablePrintFormAction and EditorPrintFormAction actions.