Finding the Jaspersoft Studio error log

To find error messages within Jaspersoft Studio you can view the workspace log within Studio, or browse directly to the file in your file system.  

To browse directly to the file, it is typically found within the home directory for your user running Studio in <HOME>JaspersoftWorkspace.metadata and is named .log

• On Windows this <HOME> location usually matches the %UserProfile% environment variable.   For example in Windows 7 this is <root>Users<username>, in Windows XP this is <root>Documents and Settings<username>
• In most Unix systems this <HOME> location matches the $HOME environment variable, often <root>/home/<username>, /home/<username>, or /users/<username>, etc.
• For MAC-OS, try /Users/<username>, or see the $HOME environment variable.

To view the log within Studio choose, Windows -> Show View -> Other -> General -> Error log:

The result of the above action will be a new window pane, like the pane in the bottom right corner of the screenshot below.    You can right-click the individual worklog messages and choose Event Details for info, or choose open log to view the entire log within Studio in the main, central pain as shown in the screenshot below.  You can also right-click within the message pane and choose Export Log to save that log elsewhere for portability.