How to create a subreport based on CSV file

[salhaber]

I have two reports in jaspersoft studio based on two different CSV files with different columns and both runs normally.

I want to include one of them as a subreport of the other, when I drag and drop the subreport element into the detail section and choose the report as my source it creates a dataset and ask me for the dataset data source, what should be the data source in my case? I cannot set it to $P{REPORT_DATA_SOURCE} because it will take the data source of the main Report and not the Subreport which has different CSV/columns.

The subreport can be linked to the main report by a common column which is a key column in the CSV.

My only problem is what should be the data source of the Subreport? 

[reportdev]

When you drag the subreport, the subreport element asks for the Report Connection. Report Connection is not a dataset. its just an initiator for your subreport. Usually $P{REPORT_CONNECTION} is the report connection that works.

In order to achieve your requirement.

• Create a subreport first by using your csv datasource in the studio

• Place your csv datasource on the server repository and copy the path to it

• The path should be pasted in the default data adapter section of your subreport. this way whenever the subreport get initiated it does not look for the main report jdbc connection

• Publish the subreport and test if the subreport works fine with the default csv data adapter

• Put your subreport in the main report and pass the parameters to it.

[werther_1]

I have the same problem. I followed the instructions below, my subreport works fine with the csv as the default datasource, but when I embed it into the main report, it simply does nothing. The subreport prints no data at all. The last tip below says:

Put your subreport in the main report and pass the parameters to it.

I ask, what parameters?