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Run your report, so it opens in the Report Viewer.
Click the header in the column you want to format.
Hover over and click Formatting...
Click the Basic Formatting tab, and change the following options if needed:
Apply to – Select the part of the column you want to apply the formatting to.
Heading text – Type new heading text to replace the current text
Font – Scroll through the menu to select a font.
Size – Scroll through the menu to select a font size.
Style – Click to select Bold, Italic, or Underlined text.
Background Color – Click to open the background color picker, then click to select the background color.
Font Color – Click to open the font color picker, then click to select the text color.
Alignment – Click to select Left, Center, or Right alignment.
If needed, click Previous Column or Next Column to change the formatting for an adjacent column.
Click OK.
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Running a Report with Input Controls or Filters
An input control are graphical widgets that filter the data that appears in a report. The perfect input control limits the data to what you want to see—and nothing more. When you run a report based on a Domain Topic that defines a filter, the server can render the filter as an input control. The JasperReports Server interface uses "input controls," "filters," and "options" interchangeably.
If your system administrator has enabled the data snapshot feature (described in Data Snapshots), it is important to note that the default input controls - that is, the input controls as defined when the original Jaspersoft Studio- or Ad Hoc View-based report is run - will overwrite any changes made to them the next time you run a report. For instance, suppose you run a report, update the input controls, then save the report. At a later date, you run a report from the Jaspersoft Studio or Ad Hoc View source again. That new report will replace the report you ran earlier, and your input control changes will be lost.
To avoid this, save a version of the report with your selected data preloaded. That way, when subsequent reports are run from the same source, they will not overwrite your report. See Saving Input Control Values for more information.
Understanding Ad Hoc Views
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