The repository in JasperReports Server stores the resources that can be combined to create a report from an uploaded JRXML file. The previous chapter introduced the repository and how to create folders and generic resources. This chapter goes into detail about how to create some key resources: data sources, queries, input controls, and file resources. These are the resource that users reference when uploading a JasperReport.
There are two scenarios for administering JasperReports Server, depending on how your end users create and consume reports.
• If you have users who are proficient at creating their own reports in iReport, they can upload them as JasperReports to the server. In this case, administrators must work with users to prepare the resources required by their reports.
• In the second scenario, administrators create and upload JasperReports to the server for their less technical users. Administrators still need to define all the resources for the reports that their users request.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Queries