Can I export from actuate 8 to jasper reports

Question

Is there a way to export from an older version of actuate (actuate 8) to jasper reports which offers much nicer features. The problem is rewriting/redeveloping all the reports would take so much time the cost savings is not there.

The format of the reports is in the proprietary binary format.

Answer 1

If Actuate 8 can export its reports to an XML file, you could develop an XSL template that transforms the report to a .jrxml format suitable for reading by iReport and JasperReports.

If Actuate 8 only exports its report format in a proprietary binary format, you are out of luck (without a significant time invested in translating from binary to .jrxml). At that point, I would lodge a feature request with Actuate to create an XML data format for their report files.

I doubt everything can translate perfectly from Actuate 8 to JasperReports, though, so you might lose a few details the translation.