svenn Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 What are other developers doing when it comes to helping clients identifying which version of a report they are running? In the past what we have done is manual update a field on the report. We used a combination of the Jasper report file name and a version control number. ie File name = report1.jrxml The label on the report would be report1_v1report1_v2 etc What are others doing? Has anyone automated the process? One item that we are concerned with is that the sometimes developer forget to update the version in a manual process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwine Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 i think using CVS or other versioning system would be the best option although it might not be the quickest thing to employ. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenn Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 We do version our reports in SourceSafe. What I'm taking about is a label that appears on the output of a Jasper Report that is visible to the user. That way when they have an issue with a report they can clearly id which version of a report they are running. It comes in handy when you have multiple clients running mutiple versions of your reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwine Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 sorry, svenn. i surely didn't get exactly what you had in mind. ;) what i was thinking of was a way to maybe use some sort of a version identifier value taken from your versioning system that you use to id the "most current version" of the document cleared for deployment, and plug it into the report/form as a string via a parameter or a field. other than that, your guess is as good as mine... maybe even better. :) Do post the solution to your requirements when you figure it out. I am sure that there are those like me who are interested in doing something similar to what you want to do in the future.Good Luck! Edwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walmillard Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 I have a parameter passed as a string and populated with the filename and this is printed in the footer of every report. When the file name changes with each version the report is clearly IDed. luckwalmillard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenn Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 walmillard "When the file name changes with each version "? I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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