Send the user to a specific report after login

[jacobhorbulyk]

Hi all,

Is it possible for a user to be redirected to a specific report after login as opposed to entering their login credentials and then being redirected to the repository by default?  Is this a feature that is avaialbe in the professional versions or is it just something that has yet to be concieved?

Thanks

[mdahlman]

There's no simple way to achieve this.

The commercial version of JasperReports Server shows an example of redirecting based on the user's role. The same technique would work equally well in the community edition.

The key thing that is needed to redirect each user would be the concept of persisted user preferences. We'll surely see this feature added someday, but it's not there today.

That said, you could certainly get it working today... but it will take some work. The profile attributes are already there. So you could populate that attribute with something and then grab that value and use it to figure out where to direct the user on login. It won't be trivial.

Regards,
Matt

[jacobhorbulyk]

 Would you be able to tell me which file those settings would be in?  I would assume it to be a .properties file somewhere in the jasper server install folder.

[Gaby38]

 I already did that by modifying the jasper-servlet.xml file. The launched report is a report listing the /reports tree and showing to the user only the reports he is authorized to launch.

I already posted about that somewhere in this forum one or two years ago. 

[jacobhorbulyk]

 With regards to this post:

 

http://jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=112&forumid=102&topicid=45586

 

How would I go about finding the URI?

[ernestoo]

 Hi,

The URI refers to the repository URI, see the attached screenshot. For example, for the Employee List report the URI is /reports/samples/Employee

[jacobhorbulyk]

 So I change the line in the jasperserver-servlet.xml file to:

 

<value>ROLE_USER|redirect:/flow.html?_flowId=viewReportFlow&reportUnit=/Two_Tables</value>

 

and then upon restarting jasper server I get the following error:

 

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 122 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/jasperserver-servlet.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "reportUnit" must end with the ';' delimiter.Any suggestions?

[Gaby38]

 The post I was referencing is :

http://jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=112&forumid=102&topicid=45792

In fact, I "clone" the viewReportFlow and I set the report to be launched at the beginning.

In the jasperserver 4 release, it is the same basic principle but there are some changes in the files to be cloned and the way to do that.

Swood said that my method was "cumbersome". It is probably true, but it works fine since one or two years. I think there are other ways to do the same thing in a more clever manner but I am not a guru of spring.

Gaby