how do or should JasperReports Server and subversion interact?

I am looking this up on the forum JasperServer Discussion/Help at jasperforge.org/projects/jasperserver/forum/.
I find 2 matches dated 2009:

• Deployment of Jasper Resources - Best Practices
• jasper version control

Actually both threads are rather identical.

creating JasperReports reports taking into account users and their city / cities

I found a paragraph in the JasperReports Server Ultimate Guide (6.4.3 Alternate Filter Expressins using testProfileAttribute), that seems to deal with this.

how to connect iReport to the database, that comes with a JasperServer (installation)?

This is the JDBC-URL (replace "JASPERSERVER" appropriately!):


jdbc:mysql://JASPERSERVER/sugarcrm


And the default credentials are: jasperdb/password.

Next issue: dealing with "repo:", a reference to the resource repository on the JasperServer …

how do I point my iReport to a JasperServer?

On OS X: Window > JasperReports Server Repository.
In the Repository Navigator there is an icon with a "+" (white on green) with the hint text "Add new server".