Using Jasper Report Form in place of Standard Forms
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Overview
Jasper Report is adopted as more flexible and easy way to create reports. Without it, we need to create Forms or Reports using ADempiere's Print Format. In some case, it is ok, but many cases quite difficult to use.
There are many pages in this Wiki talking about how to user Jasper Report, which will be very informative to read. To be more specific, this page will give the overview with pictures how to use Jasper Report as a Form, i.e., Invoice, Receipt, etc.
How ADempiere locate Forms for each document type
Before the integration with Jasper Report, Print Format is the only way to create Form in ADempiere. As such, in the window that do the Form - Document mapping is using the Print Format to tell what form to use for which document type. This give some confusion at first, but we will see how jasper report form will fit it later.
In most DocType this Print Form window will be used. And by default, some print format will already be specified.
Any overwrite by Document Type window --> Print Format field.
