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= Jasper Report Guideline Design and Style Guidelines

Building and contributing JasperReports is a way to contribute to the project.
To make it easier to maintain and style reports, use the following layout guideline to have similar and more consistent report layout.

.Layout for creating JasperReports
image::reporting/01_JasperReportStyleGuide.png["Diagram demonstrating the layout of a JasperReport", 750]

The following formatting can be applied:

[options="autowidth"]
|===
| Type  | Format

| Date
| yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss

| Report Range
| Report Begin: $\{startdate} Report End: $\{enddate}

| Paging
| Page $\{current} of $\{total}
|===

TIP: A link:https://github.com/opennms-forge/jasper-template[GitHub repository] based on this template definition contains a JasperReport template.
