This Step-By-Step tutorial shows how to use the free software “iReport” to design, deploy and run a simple report with ZuckerReports and export the result as PDF. iReport is a powerful, intuitive and easy to use visual report designer, suitable for use with ZuckerReports (http://ireport.sourceforge.net/). ZuckerReports is an extension module for Sugar Suite, the well-known Open Source Customer Relationship Management software. In short, it provides the following functions:

Management of report definitions and query templates
Management of parameter selection lists
Parametrization and execution of report definitions and query templates
Categorization of executed reports and query results for later use
Export of executed reports and query results in various formats

iReport Configuration
You have to configure iReport to get access to your Sugar database. Open menu item “Datasource -> Connections / Datasources” and click on the “New” button to open the “Connections Properties” dialog.

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