saving excel reports - blank report generated

[beckyrobbins]

When saving an excel report, you get the following error message. The report is created but it is blank.

Error message:

org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet.createDrawingPatriarch()Lorg/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFPatriarch;

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet.createDrawingPatriarch()Lorg/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFPatriarch;
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsExporter.createSheet(JRXlsExporter.java:184)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsAbstractExporter.exportReportToStream(JRXlsAbstractExporter.java:435)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRXlsAbstractExporter.exportReport(JRXlsAbstractExporter.java:207)
at net.sf.jasperreports.view.save.JRSingleSheetXlsSaveContributor.save(JRSingleSheetXlsSaveContributor.java:112)
at org.archiviststoolkit.report.ReportUtils.exportJasperReport(ReportUtils.java:70)
at org.archiviststoolkit.report.ReportUtils.printJasperReport(ReportUtils.java:127)
at org.archiviststoolkit.report.ReportUtils.printReport(ReportUtils.java:79)
at org.rac.dialogs.PatronManagement$ReportWorkerRunnable.run(PatronManagement.java:896)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[ns96]

Tracked this issue down to an outdated library that Jasper Reports uses. Work to update Jasper Reports will resolve this in the next release.

[mhudspeth]

Tested successfully in 2.5.3.