Customize Server Preferences

This panel allows you to customize your JReport Server web pages. It contains the following tabs:

Allow users to modify preferences from user console

Specifies whether to allow end users to modify the server preferences from the JReport Console page. Available to administrators only.

General

Lists the general options for customizing the JReport Server web pages. See the tab.

Default Format for Viewing Report

Specifies the default format for viewing reports.

If the property Default Format for Viewing Report of a report tab or a web report has been set to a specific format when the report is designed in JReport Designer, the value in Designer has higher priority than the one here.

Default View for DHTML

Specifies the default mode for viewing page reports in JReport Viewer. You can choose between Basic View and Interactive View.

Default Mode for Studio

Specifies the default mode for viewing web reports in JReport Studio. You can choose between View Mode and Edit Mode.

Default Mode for Dashboard

Specifies the default mode for viewing dashboards in JDashboard. You can choose between View Mode and Edit Mode.

Pop-up DHTML Window

Specifies whether to show a DHTML window when you view a report in DHTML format.

Only Display CSS Styles in Style List

Specifies whether to display only the CSS styles in the style list.

Display the Last Login Time

Specifies whether to display the last login time of a user on the top banner of JReport Server. If checked, the login time will be recorded in the login.properties file in <install_root>\bin after JReport Server shuts down.

Display the Last Logout Time

Specifies whether to display the last logout time of a user on the top banner of JReport Server. If checked, the logout time will be recorded in the logout.properties file in <install_root>\bin after JReport Server shuts down.

Keep Completed Tasks for

Specifies for how many days JReport Server will keep the completed tasks in the Completed list. If the value is set to 0, the server will keep the completed tasks until you delete them from the Completed page.

Parameter Display Size

Specifies the display length in characters of the parameters that are to be applied to both the completed and active schedules.

Folder Selector Type

Specifies the type of the tool used for selecting folder paths from the file system. This option is available on the Internet Explorer browser and applied to local publishment only.

There are three types of folder selectors:

Skin Format

Specifies the skin format applied to JReport Server and JReport Viewer UI. You can choose from Standard, Classical and Windows XP.

Columns Shown in _ List

Specifies which columns will be displayed as default in the following list when you log onto JReport Server: Resources, Scheduled, Running, Completed, Background Tasks, Report Result Versions, Report Versions, Catalog Versions, and Result Versions.

Use JDashboard as Server User Console Home Page

Specifies whether to enable dashboard users to set JDashboard status as the server home page, this provides much convenience when dashboard users need to visit some dashboards a lot. See Setting JDashboard as the server home page for details.

Export Formats

Customizes the export formats. See the tab.

Advanced

Lists the advance options for customizing the JReport Server web pages. See the tab.

Enable Waiting Page

Specifies whether to show the waiting pages. Click the Customize button to customize waiting pages in the Customize Waiting Page dialog. This option is available only when the Profile dialog is accessed on the JReport Administration page.

Specify Default Language

Specifies an environment language for JReport Server. All UI text and messages will be displayed in the specified language. The available languages come from the qualified language packages defined in <server_install_root>\resources\server\languages. By default there are two built-in English language packages: en and en-us. You can add more language packages following the section NLS at application level.

Specify Default Time Zone

Specifies the default time zone for JReport Server. All date on the server UI will then be displayed according to the specified time zone.

Specify Date Time Format

Specifies the default date and time formats in which such values will be displayed on the JReport Server web pages, for example, the last modified time of a report, the time when a schedule take is finished.

Identify Server Preference

Specifies whether a task can be performed on a manually specified clustered server when scheduling a report. This option is available only in cluster environment.

Use Accessible Version

Sets the accessible version of JReport Server as the default portal instead of JReport Console page. In the accessible version, reports are displayed in the HTML format with accessibility attributes, and table/crosstab components are output as HTML data table. With the help of reader agent end users can navigate through the server resource to view the target report. See Accessibility for more information.

Enable Saving Parameter Values

Enables saving parameter values for reuse next time when specifying parameter values in order to run reports.

For a report that has multiple parameters, the values of all the parameters specified at a time will be saved together as a group for the report. This group will be available on the value list of each of those parameters next time when the same user is asked to specify parameter values for the same report. Selecting the group from any of the parameters' value lists will apply the saved group of values to all the parameters. The group on the value list is a one-row values' set: it lists the values of the parameters in one row with blank to separate between parameters and the values are in an order same as the display order of the parameters.

When the Yes checkbox is selected, the following options are available. When switching between Manually and Automatically and OK is clicked, all saved parameter values for the current user will be cleared.