Jasper reports (plugin) and image path

Classic Servoy
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Hi,

Our application may be installed on Windows or on Linux.

In our Jasper reports images are used.
The images in Jasper reports are stored with a path ( like c:\xxx\yyy\zz.gif)
This will of course not work when the same report is run on Linux.
I do not want to have different reports for Windows and Linux.
So my question is :

Is there a default directory where Jasper looks for images if no path is specfied for the Image ( like zz.gif )
and then Jasper will look for \zz.gif ???

Regards,

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Found one way of doing this by using a parameter in Jasper/Ireports

parameter impath is set to “c:\xxx\yyy\”

then set the filepath of the image to :

$P{impath} + "zz.gif"

I can then include the parameter in the jasper plugin call.

For Linux the impath parameter can the be set to something like “/home/Jasper/images”

Still prefer to use a default image path.

Regards,

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Hans,
I checked in the JasperSoft forum and one post indicates that there are two solutions (you provided a variant on one of them):

  1. put your default reports directory in the classpath
  2. pass in the complete path specification with the jasper report filename.

Personally I place “iReports” folder under the Servoy installation directory \server (3.5.7) pr application_server (4.x) and then I program the code that invokes the jasper report plugin to go find the directory under the Servoy install directory. (See this ref: http://www.servoymagazine.com/home/2008/10/article-client.html#more).
Regards
Tom