Help With Hyperlink (ReportExecution)

[ericy]

Hi,

I am a complete newbie and I would like to get to grips with report drill-down using IReport 3.6.0.

I downloaded iReport and created two reports: master.jrxml and slave.jrxml.

slave.jrxml is parameterised and I would like to invoke/execute/view it by clicking on hyperlinks contained in master.jrxml.

1. How do I achieve this?

2. Do I require JasperServer?

3. Can I do by invoking an external Java application which in turn will execute the report? (This will negate the need for JasperServer right?)

4. Are they any other ways this can be achieved?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

[mdahlman]

ericy,

Think of iReport as an XML editor. The end result of working with iReport is a .jrxml file.

Therefore,  you need a server to allow a user to display a report and to navigate from one report to another. You can write your own Java application to run reports, or you could use JasperServer. JasperServer has the "ReportExecution" functionality built in to it, so it's easy to go from one report to another. But if you wanted to write this yourself you certainly could.

Regard,
Matt