paulhuelskamp

I'm considering trying to use the web services (SOAP) API to search for obsolete content files and delete them. From reviewing the JasperServer Web Services Guide this looks like a possible solution but I haven't gotten any further than reading the guide yet. I can take care of scheduling the task independently of JasperServer. If anyone has any experience in this area and can recommend it as a solution please chime in. Paul

Sri, It took me about 25 manhours to upgrade from V3.0 to V3.5. We have a fairly vanilla JasperServer installation with around six customizations that needed to be addressed. The biggest chunk of time was due to starting out by doing the in-place upgrade, Chapter 7 of the Install Guide. Then discovering this left the directory paths with the old "3.0" in the directory name. I then did a complete uninstall of JasperServer (keeping the export of our repository) and re-installed from scratch, Chapter 2. Then imported the saved repository. All was fine after this installation was completed. By the time of the next future upgrade, our instance should be in production. I hope to do a parallel installation of the next version on the same server as our V3.5 installation. I'm hoping I can simply use a separate port number for the future installation and run both V3.5 and the future version concurrently during the upgrade project. Does anyone have any experience with this approach? Paul

Our JasperServer installation has scheduled jobs that create distinct content output files using a timestamp in the file name. (See JasperServer 3.5 User's Guide, page 12). Without further customization this will results in an ever increasing number of content files, one for each job execution. I can't find any description in the JasperServer User Guide or Install Guide, or in the Forum, regarding how to automatically purge the content files based on an expiration date or number of files in the folder. Does JasperServer 3.5 support the automatic purging of content files or is there a customization we can do to accomplish this? We really do not want to have someone trolling through repository folders on a regular basis looking for obsolete content files to delete manually. Thanks, Paul

The 3.5 Install Guide states that a minimum of 10 GB of free disk is needed for an installation. For upgrading an existing 3.1 installation, is this in addition to the disk space already used for the 3.1 installation? Or since I have 10 GB available for the 3.1 installation, will the 3.5 install be reusing that disk space? Thanks, Paul

Is it possible to use a direct URL parameter to position the user at a specific content files folder? The JasperServer 3.1 User's Guide Section 5.1.2 only describes running a specific report, not navigating to a reports or contents files folder. No matter which sub-folder I navigate to from the Folders tree the URL parameters are always "_flowId=repositoryExplorerFlow". Thanks, Paul

FYI: I have been using iReports 3.1.4 for over a month and this morning the wizard suddenly began failing with the same symptom. I added the installation path as described above and now its working again.

Thanks for the feedback! I look forward to improvements in JasperForge. In the short term, I've found I can search JasperForge from Google advanced search using the site filter and get a fairly good hit list. Regards, Paul

I just upgraded from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 hoping that the iReport Help would have more subject matter other than just the "Servers and Databases" section but no such luck. From the PDF of the table of contents on the Definitive Guide web page it looks like no changes have been made to this book since iReport version 1.2.1. The forum seems to be the best source of information on iReport but searching the forum is another challenge in itself.

I saw a Tracker bug ( 3552) has been opened on this problem.

Best I can tell, the Scriptlet Editor has been dropped from iReport with the NetBeans (NB) versions. But maybe that's not a bad thing. I ended up downloading JasperReports to get a look at the demo scriptlet that was provided in that download. Then I downloaded and installed the NetBeans IDE 6.5 so I could compile the demo scriptlet which is written in Java. I then loaded the demo JasperReport that accompanied the scriptlet into iReport (and after faking up the report data source), successfully ran the demo scriptlet. Next I defined a new Java project for my scriptlet using NetBeans and copied and modified the demo Scriptlet.java for my report's needs. The only change needed in iReport was setting the report's Scriptlet property to the name of my scriptlet class. So the reason it's not a bad thing thing is that I have the full power of the NetBeans IDE to manage my Java scriptlet code instead of the single dialog in iReport. And the only link between the report definition and the scriptlet is the report's Scriptlet property.

Did you have any luck figuring this out? I read the chapter on scriptlets in the guide but none of those dialogs exist in iReport NB 3.1.3. I didn't see anything that looked like a Scriptlet handler in the list of available plugins either. The only property I have been able to find Report properties > Scriptlet class. This does not offer any suggestions on how to use the property.

Second attempt to attach screen shots. Forum editor would not allow changes.

I didn't find the Total Object but your technique using a variable works! I have attached two screen shots of the properties windows for variable definition and variable assignment to the group band. Post Edited by Paul Huelskamp at 02/12/09 21:24

How can you define a subtotal on a group using iReport 3.1.3? I can see from the old "Definitive Guide" there used to be a Total Object in an Object Library panel but I can't find anything like that in iReports 3.1.3. I have tried to find a forum post on this issue but, believe it or not, the forum "advanced" search will not let me search on the term 3.1 because it has a "special character".

Is the IDE Help for iReport 3.1.3 limited to just the Working With Databases section? I have just installed iReport 3.1.3 on my Windows XP computer. When I open Help > Help Contents from the IDE menu bar the only section available is Working With Databases. Is this all there is or did something go wrong during the installation? It does seem some progress is being made from the 3.0.0 release when the Help menu just took you to the JasperForge site. Thanks, Paul