What's New in This Release

This document introduces the new features and significant enhancements of JReport in this release.

JDashboard and Web Report

New Features

• New HTML library component for text entries. (More Details)
• New precise print layout. (More Details)
• Customizable dashboard theme and profile. (More Details)
• User profile setup for default date-time formats. (More Details)
• New special fields (Print Time, Modified Time and Modified Date). (More Details)
• Quick launch of JDashboard in View Only or Edit modes. (More Details)

Chart Enhancements

• New gauge chart layout using bars or bubbles to represent the values.
• Indicator (LED) chart to display flags or colors based on values.
• Formulas in chart category/series.
• Auto arrange chart labels.
• Major/minor date-time tick mark formatting (e.g. show first month as 2011, then the rest as Feb. , etc.) (More Details)

JReport Server Live

Performance

• Faster analysis with new in-memory cubes, derived from Business Views (BV). (More Details)
• Drill up and down along a new BV hierarchy. (More Details)
• Faster drill down to details with new cached detail data.
• Optimize summary computations by pushing down group summaries to the DBMS.

Other Enhancements

• Flexible embedding and integration: run one or more dashboards by URL with parameters, DB connections, etc. (More Details)
• SSL secure connection to e-mail servers.
• JReport Monitor now shows profile data for both Page Reports and Web Reports.