Have a look at the video: Get step-by-step instructions on how to set up your first JasperReports IO project in JSS on https://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/jasperreports-io-step-2 You need to do a few things to make a Studio project = a JasperReports IO project. It is easier manage if, as Guilio says in the video, you have a subfolder in the project to be your repository root. Once you have a JasperReports IO project, the data adapter files in the "repository" (project) will be accdo the ....ess relative to the repository root you set above. You wil not need to do the "../../data-adapters/DataAdapter.xml" Sherman