net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Chrome and/or PhantomJS not properly configured for server side rendering

Issue Description

A customer upgraded from Studio 7.2 to 7.9 and encountered an error while previewing reports with HTML5 charts:

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Chrome and/or PhantomJS not properly configured for server side rendering

Resolution

Studio wasn't able to locate the chrome.exe application. 

To resolve this error we set a property.

Via Window->Preferences-> Jaspersoft Studio -> Properties you can add:

net.sf.jasperreports.chrome.executable.path

with a value containing the full path for the chrome.exe on your harddrive. If you do not have Chrome/Chromium installed, you can download Chrome or Chromium during installation. For example in Win 10 this might be: C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe  

Ref. Case 01920486