# Welcome to the JReport Designer User's Guide

This User's Guide describes JReport Designer. JReport Designer is a report development environment that enables sophisticated report design and presentation of critical business data. Report designers can easily access data from any data source and generate highly formatted reports to deliver information to authorized end users in the most relevant and intuitive manner.

This guide is written for report developers or Java application developers that want to embed JReport reports into their application.

## How to use this guide

There are three ways you can navigate through the guide by using the navigation panel to the left of this text:

- From the Contents tab, scan through the chapters and topic titles to see the tasks that you can perform with JReport Designer. The chapters at the end of the guide are reference chapters.
- From the Search tab, enter a term you want to search for and press Enter. Topics that contain the term are listed. To search within a particular topic, use your web browser's Search feature. For example, in Internet Explorer, right-click in the topic pane and choose Edit > Find. However, if you are using Internet Explorer, in order to make the Search tab work well, the security setting of your Internet Explorer should be kept to the default.
- From the Index tab, scan through the list of terms to locate a desired keyword. Click the keyword and the corresponding topic is displayed.

## Other JReport documentation

This guide is one in the complete JReport documentation set. The documentation set includes the following:

- JReport Tutorial
- JReport Enterprise Server User's Guide
- JReport Viewer User's Guide
- JReport Server Monitor User's Guide
- Server API Javadoc
- Designer and Catalog API Javadoc