Arrange card type web reports easily with Java reporting tool

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Background
Card type web report is usually used in practical web reporting applications, such as employee information card, ID card, business card, etc. Card type report’s characteristic is that the area of each card is small, and many cards need to be arranged on a piece of paper. Moreover, there is a gap between two pages for clipping.

Have you ever been frustrated with a condition like this when you are making card type report with web reporting tool? Then, how to do it?

With common web reporting tool, the most direct method is to calculate the numbers of rows and columns can be deployed on a piece of paper according to the sizes of paper and card. However, as users usually want to configure the numbers of rows and columns, it has to do complex dynamic computations to get the gap between two cards according to users’ configuration before printing and displaying.

For the title of card type web report, there are two modes, one card one title and one paper one title. Then, it should allow users to choose the mode they like. For the one paper one title mode, it needs to independently deploy the title first, and then deploy the remaining data area.

Solution
As a pure Java web reporting tool, RAQ Report does a lot of work on this problem for users’ convenience. As a result, users can make card type reports with it easily. They just need to set parameters of print and page break after report design.

Graphic Illustration

Print parameters needed to be set.

Page break parameters needed to be set.


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