Uploading Suggested File Resources

If needed files are missing, as shown in Suggested Resources in the Resources List, you need to take one of the following actions:

• Upload resources that the report needs
• Select a resource from the repository

If the Controls & Resources page doesn’t suggest resources, perhaps the report doesn’t reference any. However, the server can’t always detect all the referenced resources, as discussed in Uploading Undetected File Resources.

To upload a resource from the file system

    Procedure
  1. On the Controls & Resources page, click Add Now in the row of the missing resource, for example, LogoLink. The Locate File Resource page appears.
  2. Choose Upload a Local File then click Choose File.
  3. Browse to <js-install>/samples/images. The LogoLink file is not available, but you can use an alternate image, such as <js-install>/samples/images/jasperreports.png.
  4. Click Open to return to the Locate File Resource dialog.
  5. Click Next. The Add a Report Resource page appears.

Figure 124: Properties of a Resource

The properties include the LogoLink name, resource ID, and description.

  1. Click Next to accept the default naming of the file resource.

The Controls & Resources page appears again, showing that the LogoLink resource was added.

To add a resource from the repository

    Procedure
  1. To add the second resource, click Add Now in the row for AllAccounts_Res2.
  2. Choose Select a resource from the Repository and Browse to an image file, for example, Public > Samples > Images > Jaspersoft_logo.png.

Any image file works.
  1. Click Select.
    The path to the image appears in the wizard.
  2. Click Next. The Add a Report Resource page displays the properties of the image as set in the uploaded JRXML file.

The properties include the LogoLink name, resource ID, and description. These properties don’t redefine the properties of the Jaspersoft_logo.png file in the repository.

  1. Click Next to accept the default naming of the file resource.
    The Controls & Resources page reappears, showing the addition of both resources referenced in the main JRXML.

  2. Click Data Source and define a data source as described in the next section.