jasper-reports Getting started with jasper-reports Understanding the different report bands

Example

Title

This band is showed once at the beginning of the report. It can be used as first page by setting the attribute isTitleNewPage="true"

Page Header

This appears at the beginning of each page excluding first page if Title band is used and last page if Summary band is used with setting isSummaryWithPageHeaderAndFooter="false"

Column Header

This appears before the detail band on each page.

Detail

This section is iterated for each record in datasource supplied. It is allowed to have multiple detail band (detail 1, detail 2 .. detail n), the are iterated as follows

Row 1
    detail 1
    detail 2
    detail n
Row 2
    detail 1
    detail 2
    detail n

Column Footer

This appears below the detail band on each page where detail band is present. The default setting is end of page (before Page footer) but this can be switch to under last detail band (last record) by setting the attribute isFloatColumnFooter="true"

Page Footer

This appears at the bottom of each page excluding title band, summary band (without page footer) and last non summary band if Last Page Footer is used.

Last Page Footer

This appears on last page (if not summary band without page footer) instead of normal Page Footer

Summary

This appears at the end of the report in new page if isSummaryNewPage="true" is set and with page header and footer if isSummaryWithPageHeaderAndFooter="true"

Group Header

This section appears if a group is defined every time the group expression change, before the detail band.

Group Footer

This section appears if a group is defined every time before the group expression change, after the detail band.

Background

This band is displayed on every page as background to all other bands.

No Data

This appears only if no datasource was passed or the datasource is empty (0 records) and whenNoDataType="NoDataSection" is set.