Schedule reports

You can schedule reports with JasperReport server. Right click on an Abiquo report and select Schedule. This will take you to the following screen. 

Open

Click Create schedule in JasperReports

Schedule

Click Create Schedule, which will bring up the following screen with the Schedule tab selected.

Open

Define a schedule

Choose the report format.

Output options

Then click on the Output Options tab. For the output location, your user must have read+write+delete permission to the folder location. You can create a sub-folder or change permission to the default folders with the jasperadmin account (default folders are data sources and reports). Right click the folder and select permission... and from the dropdown, set the ROLE_USER account to be the read+write+delete.

Notifications

To configure email notifications, you must configure the email system in JasperReports. See https://www.jaspersoft.com/configuring-report-scheduler

Scheduling drill-down reports

If you want to schedule drill down variants of the reports, change the Input Parameters for the report so they are not read only.

• Log in to JasperReports as jasperadmin (or another Admin user)

• Open the Drilldown Reports folder and find your report

• Right click the report and select Edit

• Select the Controls & Resources tab

  • Click on each Input Control and do the following steps:

  • Select Define an Input Control in the next step, then click Next

  • Deselect the Read-only checkbox, then click Next

  • Click Next 

• When you have edited all the input controls, click Submit.

Add a title page to drilldown reports

By default, report title pages are not included on drilldown reports. However, if you want to print/export a drilldown, then use the Options button to add the title page.

The report is regenerated with a title page.