# Create Ad Hoc Reports

There are two types of ad hoc reports in JReport, Web Report and Page Report. Both are created from a business view in a catalog. Business views have the capability of providing multiple hierarchies allowing for automatic drill down and drill up for detailed analysis and slicing and dicing data which is especially powerful using a crosstab component.

- Using Web Report Wizard the user can easily in a single pass create a multi-component report which is viewed in Web Report Studio. Web Report Studio provides the user a very high quality Web 2.0 Rich Internet Application (RIA) view of the report with component level navigation commands. For example, a single pass through the wizard can create a tabular style report with a chart and crosstab followed by the detail information in a table.
- Using Page Report Wizard the user can create a single component report which is viewed in Page Report Studio. Page Report Studio provides the user a page mode view of the report very similar to a printed report.

To create a Page Report:

1. On the JReport Console > Resources page, open the folder into which the catalog that contains the predefined business views is published, then select the catalog from the Catalog drop-down list.
2. Click New > Page Report on the task bar of the Resources page.

3. The New Page Report dialog will appear for you to create a page report with the first report tab in it.

4. Specify the title of the report tab as required in the Report Title text box.
5. In the Choose Report Layout box, select the required layout with which you want to create the report tab.
6. Click OK to create the report.
   - If Blank Report is selected as the layout, a report which is blank will be created. You can then use the Toolbox and the Resource View panels to add objects and view elements to the report.
   - If you select the layout as Banded, Table, Chart, or Crosstab, the corresponding report wizard will then be displayed. Specify the settings according to your requirements.

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To create a Web Report:

1. On the JReport Console > Resources page, open the folder into which the catalog that contains the predefined business views is published, then select the catalog from the Catalog drop-down list.
2. Click New > Web Report on the task bar of the Resources page.
3. The Web Report Wizard is displayed. Follow the wizard to create the report.

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Note: Before you can create a report in Page Report Studio, you need to first make sure that the Pop-up Blocker is not enabled on your web browser.