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I have a page with two columns, which is a table of contents page, and I want to print bookmarks according to their level value on first and second column. The problem is although the printing order is set to vertical, when jasper finishes the first column it won't start from the beginning of the second column, but it writes at the end of the column.

Is situation As you can see on the picture, I need to have the sentence with yellow square at the beginning of the second column.

jrxml

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    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["Einrichtungspseudonym"]]></defaultValueExpression>
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<parameter name="reportPart" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["reportPart"]]></defaultValueExpression>
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        <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{PAGE_NUMBER} + $F{pageIndex} + 4]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </frame>
        <frame>
            <reportElement isPrintRepeatedValues="false" x="0" y="3" width="351" height="110" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="f7f28f9f-f011-42c5-b10b-68986a90ce92">
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            <frame>
                <reportElement positionType="Float" x="0" y="0" width="351" height="18" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="870d4b8e-dcf2-40dc-8c1a-4e77b878b898">
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                </reportElement>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" hyperlinkType="LocalAnchor">
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
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                    </reportElement>
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                        <leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                        <bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                        <rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                    </box>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Left" markup="styled"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                    <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
                </textField>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                    <textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[6]]></textFieldExpression>
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <graphicElement>
                        <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
                    </graphicElement>
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            </frame>
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                    <printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$F{level} == 32]]></printWhenExpression>
                </reportElement>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" hyperlinkType="LocalAnchor">
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="px"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <box>
                        <topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
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                        <bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                        <rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                    </box>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Left" markup="styled"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                    <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
                </textField>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[6]]></textFieldExpression>
                </textField>
                <rectangle>
                    <reportElement stretchType="ContainerHeight" x="0" y="8" width="11" height="10" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" forecolor="#1BAEF7" backcolor="#56B4FC" uuid="8f7cd5e1-539e-455d-992d-7754d5b50aef">
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <graphicElement>
                        <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
                    </graphicElement>
                </rectangle>
            </frame>
        </frame>
    </band>
</detail>
<pageFooter>
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            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["© report: Quartalsbericht "+$P{reportPart}+" für Einrichtung "+$P{Einrichtungspseudonym}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
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                <textElement textAlignment="Right" verticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{MASTER_CURRENT_PAGE} != null ? $V{MASTER_CURRENT_PAGE}+"/"+$V{MASTER_TOTAL_PAGES} : $V{PAGE_NUMBER}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </frame>
    </band>
</pageFooter>

I tried another approach as well, in which I just created a page with single column, then put the fields in two frames, one on the left side and the other one on the write side of the page. But the result is just same as previous approach. Code for the single column page:

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<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit." value="cm"/>
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.print.create.bookmarks" value="false"/>
<template><![CDATA[$P{resourcePath}+"styles.jrtx"]]></template>
<parameter name="resourcePath" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA[""]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
<parameter name="Einrichtungspseudonym" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["Einrichtungspseudonym"]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
<parameter name="Berichtsquartal" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["Berichtsquartal"]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
<queryString language="XPath">
    <![CDATA[/QSDialyse2018QuartalsberichtLe]]>
</queryString>
<field name="level" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
<field name="label" class="java.lang.String"/>
<field name="pageIndex" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
<background>
    <band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<pageHeader>
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                </graphicElement>
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                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis"]]></textFieldExpression>
                <anchorNameExpression><![CDATA["Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis"]]></anchorNameExpression>
            </textField>
        </frame>
    </band>
</pageHeader>
<detail>
    <band height="110" splitType="Stretch">
        <property name="local_mesure_unitheight" value="pixel"/>
        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.layout" value="com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.layout.FreeLayout"/>
        <frame>
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                <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.layout" value="com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.layout.FreeLayout"/>
            </reportElement>
            <frame>
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                        <property name="local_mesure_unitheight" value="pixel"/>
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="px"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <box>
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                        <leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                        <bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                        <rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid" lineColor="#000000"/>
                    </box>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Left" markup="styled"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                    <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
                </textField>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
                    <reportElement style="Standard" x="321" y="0" width="30" height="18" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="207a4316-1f91-4886-91f9-9a86c788a83f">
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{PAGE_NUMBER} + $F{pageIndex} + 4]]></textFieldExpression>
                </textField>
                <rectangle>
                    <reportElement stretchType="ContainerHeight" x="0" y="0" width="11" height="18" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" forecolor="#5A49F2" backcolor="#783AFC" uuid="f9a97c9f-4bc7-4ede-b082-d39a697f10ec">
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <graphicElement>
                        <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
                    </graphicElement>
                </rectangle>
            </frame>
            <frame>
                <reportElement positionType="Float" isPrintRepeatedValues="false" x="0" y="18" width="351" height="18" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="c01291d6-8266-4368-bd93-8a9dc0b52770">
                    <printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$F{level} == 32]]></printWhenExpression>
                </reportElement>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" hyperlinkType="LocalAnchor">
                    <reportElement style="Standard_mit_html" isPrintRepeatedValues="false" mode="Transparent" x="20" y="8" width="301" height="10" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="8213d17a-5e7d-4fd2-81b2-509045752b80">
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="px"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Left" markup="styled"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                    <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
                </textField>
                <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
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                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.y" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
                    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{PAGE_NUMBER} + $F{pageIndex} + 4]]></textFieldExpression>
                </textField>
                <rectangle>
                    <reportElement stretchType="ContainerHeight" x="0" y="8" width="11" height="10" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" forecolor="#1BAEF7" backcolor="#56B4FC" uuid="ee55c1ea-8c69-45ae-86d8-6166dcddb18b">
                        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="cm"/>
                    </reportElement>
                    <graphicElement>
                        <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
                    </graphicElement>
                </rectangle>
            </frame>


        </frame>
        <frame>
            <reportElement isPrintRepeatedValues="false" x="362" y="0" width="340" height="17" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="d1247e47-59b4-4930-ad78-c76a0374f555">
                <property name="ShowOutOfBoundContent" value="false"/>
                <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.layout" value="com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.layout.FreeLayout"/>
                <printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$F{level}  == 21]]></printWhenExpression>
            </reportElement>
            <rectangle>
                <reportElement stretchType="ContainerHeight" x="5" y="0" width="11" height="17" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" forecolor="#E8A435" backcolor="#FCCF3A" uuid="38bc71e5-6d69-4ab3-8a6b-0c1bba53a26c">
                    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="cm"/>
                </reportElement>
                <graphicElement>
                    <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
                </graphicElement>
            </rectangle>
            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" hyperlinkType="LocalAnchor">
                <reportElement style="Standard" x="20" y="0" width="290" height="17" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="b19a02f7-3d3f-4086-86ed-5dc6859e5fd1"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Left"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></textFieldExpression>
                <hyperlinkAnchorExpression><![CDATA[$F{label}]]></hyperlinkAnchorExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
                <reportElement key="" style="Standard" x="310" y="0" width="30" height="17" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true" uuid="bc43bd36-7466-457c-95e6-384410c05cbe"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{PAGE_NUMBER} + $F{pageIndex} + 4]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </frame>
    </band>
</detail>
<pageFooter>
    <band height="31">
        <frame>
            <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="702" height="31" uuid="ca4af90c-cc2f-406c-865f-59680b968139">
                <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.layout" value="com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.layout.HorizontalRowLayout"/>
            </reportElement>
            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
                <reportElement style="Fußzeile 8,5pt" x="0" y="0" width="351" height="31" uuid="c3e365c7-5dde-419e-a0da-950bf7d16710"/>
                <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["© report: Quartalsbericht "+$P{Berichtsquartal}+" für Einrichtung "+$P{Einrichtungspseudonym}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" evaluationTime="Master">
                <reportElement style="Fußzeile 8,5pt" x="351" y="0" width="351" height="31" uuid="94da8446-69d3-4dc9-a791-d413082e42cc">
                    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.x" value="cm"/>
                </reportElement>
                <textElement textAlignment="Right" verticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{MASTER_CURRENT_PAGE} != null ? $V{MASTER_CURRENT_PAGE}+"/"+$V{MASTER_TOTAL_PAGES} : $V{PAGE_NUMBER}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </frame>
    </band>
</pageFooter>

Petter Friberg
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Related to your first attempt, you have misunderstood how multiple columns page work.

You do not decided in which column the fields will go, by positioning them accordingly, instead jasper-report will break to next column based on printOrder, if vertical it will break when it hits end of page or finds a manual column break either through a group or a 

<break type="Column">
    <reportElement x="0" y="15" width="100" height="1" uuid="c082e856-5507-4b0f-9dde-01b7fac85a4f"/>
</break>

Using multiple columns with manual column break

This solution is feasible if you are sure that first part will fit in first column on the page, if it does not it will overflow in second column and the column break will lead to a page break,

The solution is to sort data and then either group as in example below or by adding a manual column break as above.

Example (using datasource from this question), break to new column when reputation is less then 100.000

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="2columnsbreak" columnCount="2" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="277" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="81a13ec8-f22d-44f0-9335-c15e2fe28614">
    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="CVS"/>
    <queryString language="csv">
        <![CDATA[]]>
    </queryString>
    <field name="User" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <field name="Rep" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
    <group name="UserWithLowRep" isStartNewColumn="true">
        <groupExpression><![CDATA[($F{Rep}<100000)]]></groupExpression>
    </group>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="24" splitType="Stretch">
            <textField evaluationTime="Group" evaluationGroup="UserWithLowRep">
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="270" height="20" uuid="456c89e2-8e48-4e01-95ff-e56f2b150e0f"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[($V{COLUMN_NUMBER}==1?"User with high rep":"User with low rep")]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="23" splitType="Stretch">
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="270" height="20" uuid="2daf5f8f-87a1-4f7e-b1de-2807811a1ddd"/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{User}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </detail>
</jasperReport>

The groupExpression will break to new column when it changes

Output

example

Note How you can use the built-in variabile $V{COLUMN_NUMBER}, to output and format data as you like depending on column. In this example 2 columns it will either have value 1 (for data in first column) or 2 (for data in second column).

Petter Friberg
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