This is the most used editor in Jaspersoft Studio. This editor is used together with Outline View , Properties View , Palette , and Problems View . Some complex JasperReports components like list, table, and crosstab have their own editors - to open these, just double click on the element in the designer or Outline view. There are buttons on the toolbar to control zoom, publish reports to a Jaspersoft Server, open query editor, or change settings related to rulers, grid, decorators. To add elements to the page drag and drop them from the Palette. It is also possible to drag and drop fields, properties or variables from the Outline view directly to the report. Use the context menu to delete, arrange, resize, align, set PDF properties of the elements. You can use keyboard to manipulate elements on the canvas: DEL to delete an element, arrows to select elements, . (point) will select an operation like resize left, right, up, down, or move.

This is a simple text editor with XML syntax highlighting. You can use it in combination with Outline view where all XML nodes are visible. Clicking on a node shows its position to the corresponding line in text editor.

Jrxml errors are shown in the left vertical band of the editor in front of the problematic line. Users can see all the errors in Problems view. Clicking on an error positions the cursor on the relevant error line in the editor.

The goal of this view is to prompt user input parameters, help configure some settings, select a data adapter, see generated report in different formats, and save report to a file. There are three main parts to the view: