Besides the built-in elements seen up to now, JasperReports supports two technologies that enable you to plug-in new JasperReport objects respectively called “custom components” and “generic elements.” Both are supported by Jaspersoft Studio. Without a specific plug-in offered by the custom element provider, there is not much you can do with it; you can just set the common element properties. Therefore, a custom element developer should provide a plug-in for Jaspersoft Studio through which you can, at least, add the element to a report (maybe adding a palette item) and modify the element properties (implementing what is required to display the additional properties in the Properties view when the element is selected.