Changing ad hoc report title font, color, etc.

Situation:

You have an ad hoc report with a title. You want to change how the title is displayed (color, font, alignment, etc.)

Solution:

To change the report title in Ad Hoc report you need to do the following:

1. In TIBCO Jaspersoft^® Studio connect to the TIBCO JasperReports^® Server repository, go to /public/templates, open Actual Size template in editor

2. Edit styles ChartReportTitle, ChartTitle, TableTitleTextStyle, CrosstabTitleTextStyle

3. In Appearance tab set Forecolor to the one you want.

4. Save report as, save it under some name you want.

5. Right click on the saved report in the project explorer and press Export Files To and save it somewhere on your hard drive

6. Go to JasperReports^® Server web UI and go to /public/templates folder.

7. Create -> File -> JRXML. Upload the file file from step 5.

8. When saving view and creating report in Ad Hoc editor, in the save location dialog select Save Report With Custom Template and point to your template.