Prevent Studio from updating Image Expression on Publish

[williamtwynn]

I'm finding some weird random un-wanted behavior when I attempt to edit a report locally. 

Upon saving back to the server one of three things happens randomly: 

1. The Main.JRXML is saved only. This is what I want.  

2. I get a dialog and a box to select resources to upload. For an image it will create a whole new expression to reference the NEW location Studio wants to stick the single image. This sucks because I have just written an expression pointing that image to where it actually lives and it takes a parameter etc. I can at least make sure the expression is changed BACK to what I had it at design time before deploying. 

3. The image file is automatically saved to the repo and my image expression is completely overwritten to reference the new location. This sucks the MOST since it is essentially overwriting my work. 

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN? It seems random. If there is a way to dictate the publish process I'd like to know. THANKS! 

[Massimo Rabbi]

Hi,
usually since you are publishing to the JasperReports Server you will need to have expression like "repo:<something>".
That's the reason why the expression are modified when publishing.

Anyhow you shold be able to modify the expression using the dedicated button. See image below.

Regards,
Massimo.