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Opening Reports

1. Click Home/File > Open to display the Open Report dialog.

   

2. Click Browse to select the catalog in which the reports you want to open are saved.
3. In the Reports tab, select the type of the reports from the Report of Type drop-down list.
4. All the reports of the specified type in the specified catalog are then displayed in the report box. Select the desired reports.
5. If you want to open reports that you have opened recently, switch to the Recent tab, and then select the reports to open.
6. Click Open to open the specified reports. The last selected report in the report box will be the active report.

If you just want to access some recently open reports, you can also click File > Open Recent and select the reports one by one from the submenu.

Opening self-contained page reports

When a page report you have selected in the Open Report dialog is a self-contained page report, after you click OK in the Open Report dialog, the Open As dialog will appear, prompting you to specify the way in which you want the page report to be opened.

• Open a self-contained page report at current catalog
  Specifies to open the selected self-contained page report in the current catalog and make it work under the current catalog.

  JReport Designer will compare the resources in the catalog of the self-contained page report with the current catalog according to the checking level (whether the Check all data match is selected). If conflicts exist between the two catalogs, the page report cannot be opened.

• Open a self-contained page report directly
  Specifies to open the selected self-contained page report directly to make it work under a new catalog.
• Open a self-contained page report at other catalog
  Specifies to open the selected self-contained page report at another catalog and make it work under that catalog.

  If this option is checked, you will be prompted to open an existing catalog for the self-contained page report. JReport Designer will then compare the resources in the catalog of the self-contained page report with the newly selected catalog according to the checking level (whether the Check all data match is selected). If conflicts exist between the two catalogs, the page report cannot be opened.

• Check all data match
  This checkbox is enabled when Open a self-contained page report at current catalog or Open a self-contained page report at other catalog is checked. It is used to specify the checking level between two catalogs.
  • If checked, all the differences between the two catalogs will be checked by JReport Designer.
  • If unchecked, only the differences that can cause the report engine to fail when running the page report will be checked by JReport Designer.

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