Getting an image over network share with Jaspersoft Studio/ReportServer

[arno_1]

Hello everyone,

first of all I have to admit that I'm a Jaspersoft newbie!

So I designed a report with the Studio, which loads a dynamic image based on the query result (String).

For this I created an image object and put this in the expression value field:

• "\\REMOTE_PC\IMAGE_PATH\"+$F{image_name}+".jpg"
• "file://REMOTE_PC/IMAGE_PATH/"+$F{image_name}+".jpg"

NOTE: both ways seem to work actually in the Studio preview but not on the Server.

But if i change the $F{image_name} to an actual value, ie. "picture" it will also work on the Server side?!

• "\\REMOTE_PC\IMAGE_PATH\picture.jpg"
• "file://REMOTE_PC/IMAGE_PATH/picture.jpg"

Not quite sure, why the way above shouldn't work, so I would be pleased if someone could provide some insight on this topic.

Thank in advance,

Arno

[hozawa]

I think the server wants a uri of the image. If you upload the image to the server, the uri will be repo://

Try uploading a report with an image on a local pc drive. If you go to the repository view and open the main.jrxml file, you'll see the uri to the image is repo:

[arno_1]

Sorry I get back to this topic so late..

It seems to me, that all problems I've got with those network shares were actually windows related (permissions, etc). After switchting to a linux-share all worked great!

Nevertheless I decided to use a webserver for my images, which should be best practice afaik.

Thank you very much for your response Mr. Hozawa =)