Dynamically get report path on server

[jphayes]

I need to get the server path a report is run from.

My current process is to create a report under a review folder and publish to the client location.  However, in doing this I have to manually adjust the hyperlink used to access another report for each client I give the report to for the location.  While that does not sound bad in theory it is a pain and leads to issues, especially with the junior report writers.

What I would like to do is get the path it is being run from so I can dynamically setup those hyperlinks and not have to manually adjust each time and avoid causing potential issues.

Development Folder
/organizations/client1/Report_Development/Review/abc/rpttype/Accounting/Accounting_Report_1

Client Folder
/organizations/client1/rpttype/Accounting/Accounting_Report_1

[jgust]

We had this same issue where our sub-report path would change depending on what environment the report was executed for.

Our solution was to write a scriptlet that read a configuration file.  We would pass the application to it and in return, it would pass back the full path to the location of the report being executed.

 

Here is an example of our development configuration file:

# Modify the JASPER_SUBREPORT_PATH to identify where
# japer will look for the sub reports
#
#files on server
JASPER_SUBREPORT_PATH=\\\\server\\project\\DEV\\%APP%\\REPORTS\\TEMPLATES\\

 

Here is an example of our sub-report expression:
$P{JasperUtils_SCRIPTLET}.getSubReportPath( "OCR" )+"AAA3-555-001-1295-PDF-SUB01.jasper"

 

The result of that expression using the development configuration previously mentioned would be:
\\server\project\DEV\OCR\REPORTS\TEMPLATES\AAA3-555-001-1295-PDF-SUB01.jasper

 

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