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The easiest type of connection to create is an XQuery connection. Using an XML data-file and a query we can walk through the wizard and generate a report-spec. There is an XML data-file in {WIZARD-ROOT}/samples/data called Quad_Data.xml. This file is the same data in the Hypersonic database.
To launch the Report Design Wizard use the included Ant build.xml target called "launch". If you do not have Ant or are unfamiliar with it you may also double-click the reportwizard.bat file to launch the wizard using Microsoft Windows.
The starting point allows you to create a report from scratch or to work off an existing report. The Report Design Wizard supports 'templates,' which are pre-defined report definitions (layouts) for specific types of reports (e.g. Customer Invoices) and require the user to enter 'mappings'.
The Report Name field is used to set the name of the report in the JFreeReport XML definition and as a filename to create in the temporary Pentaho solution path while generating previews. When a report is exported several files are copied to the specified path. These files are the JFreeReport XML definition, the Pentaho Report-Spec document, images used by the report (watermark), and the action sequence document necessary to run the report by the Pentaho Solution engine.