HOWTO Use Jasper On Financial Reports

Applicable for versions > 3.3.1b

Now you can use Jasper Reports in order to format the financial reports - and apply all the power of Jasper (formulas, grouping, etc).

Define the Process

You simply need to define a new system process pointing to your jasper file:

You don't need to define parameters for the process.

Then you can use the defined jasper process in the financial report

You can download and use the next provided report as template to construct your own reports: T_ReportTemplate by Carlos Ruiz.

An example of more complex, cascading Jasper report by Mario Calderon is found here: Example of complex Jasper Report.

How to deploy your Jasper Reports on an own directory (by Mario Calderon):

download the following file; Own JR deployment.
decompress zip file.
save a copy of "trunk/JasperReportsWebApp/build.xml".
copy the decompressed zip file into "trunk/JasperReportsWebApp".
define an ant in Eclipse pointing to "trunk/JasperReportsWebApp/build.xml".
copy your jrxml and jasper files into "trunk/JasperReportsWebApp/shwReportVerzeichnis".
execute the ant command "shw-packaging"
ant creates 2 files: "shwReports.ear" and "shwReports.war". You can check their contents with ark or a similar tool.
copy shwReports.ear into $ADEMPIERE_HOME/jboss/server/adempiere/deploy
JBoss will deploy the files into a temporary directory at startup and delete the temporary directory at shutdown.
This way, you can define your reports in the "Report&Process" window, Field "Jasper Report" (see above) the following way: http://192.168.1.100/shw/my_report.jasper o http://my-named-server/shw/my_report.jasper.

The JRs are thus accessible by all clients (windows or linux).

A simple financial jasper report by Colin Rooney is found here: Example of financial Jasper Report.