I am trying to create a sub report( report1_subreport3.jrxml ) from the main report(

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I am trying to create a sub report( report1_subreport3.jrxml ) from the main report(

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I am trying to create a sub report(report1_subreport3.jrxml) from the main report(report1.jrxml) using iReport designer (both with empty data source) . The main report detail band contains a static text (“Main Report”) and the subreport element and the subreport contains a static text in its corresponding detail band(“Sub Report”)

But clicking the preview tab of the main report shows only static text “Main Report” not displaying the static text of subreport (“Sub Report”) .

I also went through the link http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/524978/empty-subreport-xml-datasource-ireport but still facing the issue .

Below is the report1.jrxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="20036b98-ef64-4dea-8345-b89bcd8f2671">
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="68"/>
    <parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
        <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["D:\\soapReport\\jasperReport\\"]]></defaultValueExpression>
    </parameter>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </title>
    <pageHeader>
        <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageHeader>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="125" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="d49ee6bf-1a13-41bb-9feb-f0fb2ec414f2" x="71" y="28" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <text><![CDATA[Main Report]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <subreport>
                <reportElement uuid="364d3c38-a0a1-4fa5-b0bf-12b22314ac5e" x="311" y="14" width="200" height="100"/>
                <connectionExpression><![CDATA[$P{REPORT_CONNECTION}]]></connectionExpression>
                <subreportExpression><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "report1_subreport3.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
            </subreport>
        </band>
    </detail>
    <columnFooter>
        <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnFooter>
    <pageFooter>
        <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageFooter>
    <summary>
        <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

and below is the report1_subreport3.jrxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1_subreport3" language="groovy" pageWidth="555" pageHeight="802" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="0" bottomMargin="0" uuid="7ca2d973-972c-4c56-8d5e-503b32b4afc6">
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </title>
    <pageHeader>
        <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageHeader>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="125" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="5f488fe4-f9f7-4f12-9c1e-812661026bd7" x="222" y="50" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <text><![CDATA[Sub Report]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </detail>
    <columnFooter>
        <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnFooter>
    <pageFooter>
        <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageFooter>
    <summary>
        <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

Thanks in advance for any help on that …

Thanks Gopi for the change, but still it is showing the blank in the place of subreport . Below is the main report

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="748f862c-3467-4c8c-89f6-04a571192482">
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
    <parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
        <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["D:/soapReport/jasperReport/"]]></defaultValueExpression>
    </parameter>
    <queryString>
        <![CDATA[]]>
    </queryString>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </title>
    <pageHeader>
        <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageHeader>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="71" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="17f2cfc8-497a-4676-b83a-acf55bccac04" x="33" y="15" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <text><![CDATA[Main Report]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </detail>
    <columnFooter>
        <band height="134" splitType="Stretch">
            <subreport>
                <reportElement uuid="40f53bea-c9eb-46a7-b4fc-3d592da3ef90" x="234" y="17" width="200" height="100"/>
                <connectionExpression><![CDATA[$P{REPORT_CONNECTION}]]></connectionExpression>
                <subreportExpression><![CDATA["D:/soapReport/jasperReport/report1_subreport1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
            </subreport>
        </band>
    </columnFooter>
    <pageFooter>
        <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </pageFooter>
    <summary>
        <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

and below is the subreport

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1_subreport1" language="groovy" pageWidth="555" pageHeight="802" whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="0" bottomMargin="0" uuid="62bf7fb7-8145-4aa6-b963-c98eefac9862">
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="61" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="9bf9eafc-c1e0-49fa-8bb8-ed6c496498da" x="213" y="20" width="100" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <text><![CDATA[Sub Report]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </columnHeader>
</jasperReport>

PLease help me if I am missing something…

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-14T03:37:51+00:00

Place your sub-report field in the any other band other than detail band and add whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" to your xml file.
Add it among the other report properties in <JasperReport> tag.
You can also add using the GUI Designer.
Open your sub report and in the properties editor, at the end of the options you will find
When No Data option. Select All Sections with No Detail from the list of available options.

Mainreport :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20">
<property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
<property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
<property name="ireport.y" value="12"/>
<parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
    <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["/home/qualian/Desktop/gopi/prjreport/"]]></defaultValueExpression>
</parameter>
<queryString>
    <![CDATA[]]>
</queryString>
<background>
    <band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<title>
    <band height="79" splitType="Stretch"/>
</title>
<pageHeader>
    <band height="35" splitType="Stretch"/>
</pageHeader>
<columnHeader>
    <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"/>
</columnHeader>
<detail>
    <band height="125" splitType="Stretch">
        <subreport>
            <reportElement x="33" y="56" width="208" height="36"/>
            <connectionExpression><![CDATA[$P{REPORT_CONNECTION}]]></connectionExpression>
            <subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR}+"report3_subreport1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
        </subreport>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement x="33" y="15" width="100" height="20"/>
            <textElement/>
            <text><![CDATA[Main Report]]></text>
        </staticText>
    </band>
</detail>
<columnFooter>
    <band height="45" splitType="Stretch"/>
</columnFooter>
<pageFooter>
    <band height="54" splitType="Stretch"/>
</pageFooter>
<summary>
    <band height="42" splitType="Stretch"/>
</summary>

Sub report:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report1_subreport3" language="groovy" pageWidth="555" pageHeight="802" whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="0" bottomMargin="0">
<property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
<property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
<property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
<background>
    <band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<columnHeader>
    <band height="40" splitType="Stretch">
        <staticText>
            <reportElement x="107" y="12" width="100" height="20"/>
            <textElement/>
            <text><![CDATA[Sub Report]]></text>
        </staticText>
    </band>
</columnHeader>

This worked like a charm. Hope this helps.

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