How to create multiple PDF files.

Question

Hi,
I have two tables, one with the customer address and another one with a note. May I know how to create a separate PDF file (for each customer) that should start with the customer name/address (from customer table) and followed by a note (from the note table)
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi,
I am stuck at the first step of designing report with jasper ireport designer... my test data is currently on apex.oracle.com and my real data is hosted on the intranet, there are quite a few options available to link to the table source before designing the report but I am not sure which one to use to connect to APEX.oracle.com (or to my intranet.. interestingly there is no option for ODBC connection, usually that's the one I use to upload files to oracle)...
can you please suggest how to link to the table...?
alternatively, I downloaded the data and saved it in the csv format and used that as the source to create a sample report which is shown below (is there a way to manually convert it to sql based)...? here is the report
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report9" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="62e163c3-8f34-451a-800b-5f4285e2e194">
     <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
     <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
     <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
     <field name="MONTH" class="java.lang.String"/>
     <field name="CUSTOMER" class="java.lang.String"/>
     <field name="PRODUCT" class="java.lang.String"/>
     <field name="Revenue" class="java.lang.String"/>
     <background>
          <band splitType="Stretch"/>
     </background>
     <title>
          <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
     </title>
     <pageHeader>
          <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
     </pageHeader>
     <columnHeader>
          <band height="61" splitType="Stretch">
               <staticText>
                    <reportElement uuid="e7032731-30c5-4d15-b6e0-bccaeb8de3b0" x="0" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <text><![CDATA[MONTH]]></text>
               </staticText>
               <staticText>
                    <reportElement uuid="0a3a1aef-e967-42c4-81bd-1fc0688afffa" x="138" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <text><![CDATA[CUSTOMER]]></text>
               </staticText>
               <staticText>
                    <reportElement uuid="35720a70-999c-4b17-966d-7a6ff104ccd2" x="276" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <text><![CDATA[PRODUCT]]></text>
               </staticText>
               <staticText>
                    <reportElement uuid="bbec6818-cdb0-4745-927c-6f3e40209fb2" x="414" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <text><![CDATA[Revenue]]></text>
               </staticText>
          </band>
     </columnHeader>
     <detail>
          <band height="125" splitType="Stretch">
               <textField>
                    <reportElement uuid="a6554549-7721-4a4f-94f0-3169139bfdb6" x="0" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{MONTH}]]></textFieldExpression>
               </textField>
               <textField>
                    <reportElement uuid="c2943016-5a5f-42e8-8612-5b8dafc23eea" x="138" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{CUSTOMER}]]></textFieldExpression>
               </textField>
               <textField>
                    <reportElement uuid="3d97fdd0-5923-469a-862f-be485b6416ac" x="276" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{PRODUCT}]]></textFieldExpression>
               </textField>
               <textField>
                    <reportElement uuid="724e9536-667b-4db1-96b8-81e2f5554ea2" x="414" y="0" width="138" height="20"/>
                    <textElement/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{Revenue}]]></textFieldExpression>
               </textField>
          </band>
     </detail>
     <columnFooter>
          <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
     </columnFooter>
     <pageFooter>
          <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
     </pageFooter>
     <summary>
          <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
     </summary>
</jasperReport>