Author Archives: shuckins

Setting up nested style templates in iReport and JasperReports

Posted on January 24, 2013 by shuckins

Style templates are a great way to abstract style definitions that are shared across a report out to an external file. This makes them easier to maintain and understand of course, but once your report library grows you will likely … Continue reading →

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Evading UUID woes when upgrading to iReport 4.6

Posted on January 23, 2013 by shuckins

If you get this sort of nonsense as soon as you create a new report in iReport 4.6 (important caveat: and after having been running an older version like 4.1): com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.JSExceptionWrapper: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute ‘uuid’ is not allowed to appear … Continue reading →

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Changing your name in iPad mail accounts

Posted on August 14, 2012 by shuckins

When adding a second Gmail account to my iPad recently, I needed to differentiate the two accounts clearly. I decided on “Gmail – ” followed by the beginning of the account name. All well and good so far. However, a … Continue reading →

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