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Parameters passed on invoking report! Why didn't I think of that? Thanks again for your help Svenn.

Thanks for the prompt response Svenn - much appreciated! Your answer confirmed what I was expecting. If the choice is between a sub report and a Java scriptlet - which whould be most efficient in a a run-time/production environment? The particular problem I'm trying to solve, is standard hearder and footer data that is stored in a database table. All reports would be using the same header and footer layout. If the lookup data was in a sub-report that was being reused, would this be 'cached' by the report server? Thanks again for your help.

Forgive my ignorance - I'm a newbie to iReports! Is it possible to perform some sort of simple table lookup using the existing database connection for data that is not available from the Report Query? For example - looking up standard header & footer text? I can use a subreport, but this seems to be overkill for a simple function. Some sort of formula in the expression editor would appear to be the obvious solution - is that possible?