I'm trying to create a BIRT report. The code and query side of it works just fine, but the display is rather wonky.
There's one column whose text contents are rather long, and instead of showing some text and allowing scrolling of the text (which is the behavior I'd like there), it simply shows up as a very vertically long text block; kinda ruins the report a bit. I've also tried setting the width on the column, but no dice there either. Any ideas?
Also, as an aside, how do I get the table's columns to have grid lines? I can do that on the rows, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that for the columns. If anyone has insight into that issue, it'd be appreciated.
Here's a screenshot of the issue
Here's my BIRT report XML, without headers and footers in order reduce characters
I think there is no way to use a scrollable view element inside your report, because the output by the default html-emitter is completely static (I would like to see a different answer if this should be wrong).
To your second Question about how to add a border to a column. Click into the cell of your table, click on "Border" inside the "Properties Editor" and select the borders you like to use. This should be repreated for all cells where you want to use the borders, because this configuration is not applied for a whole column but just for one cell. If you want a border for the whole column you need to setup the border for every cell in the column.
If you have already a data cell inside your table cell, you can use the outline view to select the table cell instead of the data cell:
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I am creating a table where I need to freeze some cell while keeping the other cell scrollable. The table must be responsive to screen size that is why I need to make some cell scrollable.
Based on the picture above, I want to keep the blue area floating/or freeze while the red area scrollable.
How is this possible in google app maker?
First of all, this widget that you refer to as a table in your sample screen is actually a composite widget where it combines several basic widgets like the list, horizontal panel, and pager.
There is another table widget under charts, called Table chart, that can be used to present your data in rows and columns. But if you are looking for a property that can achieve this UI effect, then I'm afraid AppMaker does not support this yet.
If you are really keen to make this work, I would suggest that you combine two table widgets that inherit the same data source then wrap them SIDE-BY-SIDE in a horizontal panel. The left side will only contain columns that you want to freeze while the right size will have the rest of the column that can be scrollable.
Make sure to set the height of both tables to auto-grow based on the content (Fit to content). This will give the effect that the two tables are merged when doing vertical scrolling.
I have here a sample implementation as I described above. I gave a background to the main container to better understand the concept. I also added a small gap to show that I used two table widgets.
Here is the set-up in editor view (screen-shot)
See it in action here (video)
This is the screenshot of an RDLC report in my Visual Studio report designer
As you can see from the screenshot, my table is totally centered.
This is the screenshot of my report in running mode.
You can see that the table has moved to the right a bit.
I do not know why this is happening. I have set the CanGrow and CanShrink attribute of my individual columns to false, but I think my table body is growing.
It looks like email address length is the reason - it causes this column to expand. You can test this theory by removing record #4 from you report's data source.
Check that two things are set in properties:
click on containing Text Box and click F4. Make sure that "Can Grow" property is set to true (which most likely already is)
right click on containing Text Box and go to TextBox property window. Make sure that sizing option "Allow Height to increase" is checked ON (in General tab). This should push text in the column to wrap instead.
Do the same thing for all the columns that you anticipate longer text (like applicant name). Also, consider increasing initial width of this kind of columns to get more predictable formatting results.
Another thing to do is to remove all white space on the right and left of the table and setting all the margins to make page to be exactly 8.5 x 11 in total (if, for example, you are aiming to use letter page size). This would remove any "space to grow" for the table.
When I use a datatable and start shrinking my browser window, the datatable has a weird behavior. The center part (where the data is), doesn't shrink but the paginator does.
Here are some pics about the problem.
Thanks in advance.
It's because it can't break up the titles in your table header. If you would place spaces in between instead of using capital letters, it would break the title up and divide it over multiple lines.
If you don't have access to the table header's name (or the ability to change it), take a look at the word-wrap-property in CSS.
I would like to achieve effect visible on the screenshot below that is content of the table cell (that blue cell with Michal Aniol...) should be fully visible but cell's width should stay the same.
How do I do that?
I am open for solutions requiring heavy use of javascript as the rest of the application and also table itself will be generated by dojo.
Having colspan > 1 is not an option because it will not work in other cases. I really want to use just single cells as this will help me with other functionality.
Screenshot http://uppix.net/4/d/9/8cfc6aba556405f910871598afa10.png
Markup and css: http://jsfiddle.net/sGkpq/
style.less http://pastebin.com/waXWDf4J
To make my question self-contained in case links die as #Sparky672 pointed:
I wanted to have table cells of same size and if content in a cell is bigger than the cell itself then content should still display and flow to the next cell. So text in a cell if longer than the cell then it should overflow to the next cell overlaying its content.
Just remove overflow-x: hidden from table.reservation-table td. The text will continue past the end of the cell.
Of course, if you want it to work when the name is longer than the cells behind it (eg, Michal only booked one day) that would be more complicated, but probably doable.
I'm guessing this isn't possible, but here goes.
I have two tables, and I'm trying to get them to sit side-by-side so that they look like one table. The reason for this, instead of using one larger table, is that the data in the second table needs to be handled on a column basis, not row basis, for performance reasons like caching and AJAX-fetching data. So rather than have to reload the whole table for a single column, I decided to break the column out into a separate table, but have it visually seem like a single table.
I can't find a way to forcibly put the second table next to the first. I can float them, but when the first table is too wide, the second one breaks to the next line. Here's the kicker: the width of the first table is dynamic. So I can't just set a huge width to their container. Well, I could set a huge width, like 1000%, but then I have a huge ugly horizontal scroll bar.
So is there any way to tell the second table "Stay on that same line, no matter what! And line up right next to the previous element please!"
Put your two tables in another table with a single row and two cells. Not elegant or 'modern' but it will work.
If your table is one table, you should have sticked with one table.
You are trying to fix a data manipulation issue by using a different document structure.
Using a different class per column with the DOM navigation tools provided by library such as jquery, you should not have any problem accessing cells or columns you want to update.
I would not go the route you chose.
How about this:
<div>
<div class=lspacer>
<table1>
</table1>
</div>
<div class=rspacer>
<table2>
</table2>
</div>
</div>
Then, for lspacer, you can clear it left, and for rspacer, you can clear it right.
Also, you specify the width.