We are using the jasperPlugin to generate reports. Sometimes these reports need extra info or adjustments, so they can be saved as RTF. In this way the generated reports can be edited in MS Word. But in MS Word all the objects are static (in placement and size). For instance: with the generated RTF in MS Word it is not possible to insert some free text between two bands or between two rows in a band. Textboxes are not automatically growing when adding text to them, you have to do that manually. Does anybody also encountered this problem and perhaps found a solution or a better way to handle this?
Used versions: servoy 4.1.7, servoyjasperreports 3.0.0a1, ireport 3.5.2
michel:
Used versions: servoy 4.1.7, servoyjasperreports 3.0.0a1, ireport 3.5.2
Servoy 4.1.7? Man, you are way too advanced for all of us!
Seriously, did you try to output directly from iReport, do you experience the same problem then, or is it specific to the use of the plugin?
Because if it isn’t you should try in a Jasper Reports specialized forum, you will have a better chance that someone had already experiencing what you are experiencing and possibly have a workaround…
The forum is http://jasperforge.org/projects/jaspersoft/forum
But I could find no specific issues raised there…yet
Why not post there as Patrick suggests, get an answer, then post your findings here for the rest of us
I see that 3.5.3 has support for docx - which might be an alternative to RTF for post-Servoy processing? (but note that the Servoy plugin will not support this yet only the save as output from the viewer).
For the docx-format (as well as the odf-format for openoffice) jasper stores the generated report in a table instead of storing every item in it’s own absolutely placed textbox. Tablerows and cells can grow, shrink, be inserted and removed. This makes editing a lot easier. Cells and rows now have an absolute width and height, it would be convenient that this would be controlled by the stretchType property in Jasper.
For this issue there is a feature request at jasper. See: http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperr … hp?id=4090
Michel,
Reading between the lines I think that the Servoy plugin needs to support the output of the new forms of file format. If you do not put in a request for that at the Google code site then I will (I can always have a go at adding them myself unless someone has already done so )