twinkiejr's post in Changing comma in CSV to a Tab Globally in Jasperserver was marked as the answer
July 1, 2013
The above answer would not work the applicationContext.xml overrides jasperreports.properties. I finally got it to work by using in the applicationContext.xml. <bean id="csvExportParameters" class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.common.CsvExportParametersBean"> <property name="fieldDelimiter" value=","/> </bean>[/code] Changed to <bean id="csvExportParameters" class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.common.CsvExportParametersBean"> <property name="fieldDelimiter" value=" "/> </bean>[/code]