I have developed two Jasper reports: a simple pie chart and a standard tabular-style report presenting the details for a given wedge/section of the pie chart. I want the pie chart to drive the contents of the detail report, but I don't want to drill down exactly. Rather, I want the pie chart to remain visible in the same window next to the details so that a user can simply click one of the pie chart wedges/sections and view the associated details - more like a Master-Detail Form, where users can navigate from one Master record to another to view the associated details. I'm a beginner with Jasper Reports, so the only way I know of to accomplish this mission is to merge the two reports into a single combined report and configure a hyperlink for the pie chart measure to re-execute the combined report, passing in a wedge-/section-specific parameter value that can be fed to the detail subreport. However, this isn't a very elegant solution. Is there a better, more efficient approach? Can/should I use a dashboard?
