Scenario:
I have a jasper report with multiple text fields inside a detail band. Each text field has the properties:
Position: Float
Stretch Type: Relative to tallest object
Print When Detail Overflows: False
Stretch With Overflow: True
The details band has the property:
SplitType: Stretch
Current Result:
When one of the text fields is taller than the page and extends to a next page, all other text fields stretch to the end of the page.
Problem:
I want all text fields to be able to stretch on the next page as well. If I use the property 'Print When Detail Overflows: True' then this causes the text fields to be 'reprinted' with data duplicated. That is not my intention. I want to be able to stretch the text field to more than one page.
Thank you!
I also have same problem and after playing whole day did not figure out anything :-(.
My workaround was to set whole band to "Prevent" split type. It is not solution. Only trying to not have text fields 'reprinted' with data duplicated.
You can try setting to the field's Stretch Type to Relative to Band Height. If that didn't work, just play with those properties. I believe you can accomplish it by playing with the properties you mentioned.
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I've got a long text field which wraps to another page, the problem is that the border on first page does not matches end of page...
I guess I coul've fixed it by adding some Frame element, but I couldn't achive it by now.
thanks!
I guess the cause of this problem was "Strech type: relative to tallest object"
my solution was to put all the fields in an outlined frame
and disable fields bottom border
I use iReport and I try to fix a detail band's height independently of its content. My problem is that if one of my text fields has more than one line, the band "grows" and because of this I get a second page.
So is there any possibility to hard fix the height of a detail band?
Try setting the stretch type for the text field to "No Stretch" and the split type (see the properties menu) for the detail band to "Prevent".
Since we could not find any direct options, We are doing this in an indirect method, having PLSQL Procedure for data fetching, different sub-datasets are used for filling fixed height detail areas, so each fixed datasets are filled with max.rows which it can accomodate (within sub procedures). Hope it helps someone.
My requirements bind me to have multiple rows in a single "Details" band.
Right now I am having a static text field (which is highlighted in color) in the leftmost column and three text data fields next to it.
What I want in my report is, the static text band along with the three bands should stretch in height when data in either of the three bands overflows, with the next row "properly" displayed below the stretched row. By "properly" I mean the next row elements should have their "top" values the same and be displayed in the same "row".
I tried setting "Stretch with overflow" flag to "true" and "Position" to "float" but the problem is that the next row data is not properly positioned.
I have found the answer. The key to the solution is grouping the elements inside a row together.
Remove all the static text labels. Use text fields instead, with the text in quotes. They can be grouped with other text fields and data fields.
Put all the data fields after the quoted text field in the same group as the quoted text field.
Now, do the same with all the rows that you want to display. Separate group for individual row.
Select all the elements in a group, or, all the elements in all the gorups and do this:
Set "Position" to "Float"
Set "Stretch Type" to "Relative to the tallest object"
Check "Print when detail overflows" checkbox.
Check the "Stretch with overflow" checkbox.
That's all we can do to make things "stretch" together.
Now, the band would have to stretch dynamically with these stretched details. Just go to the band properties, set Split type to "Default" and split allowed to true. This did the trick for me.
In case someone comes up to this problem and above answers don't work. I suggest checking your xml's root element. If it has the following attribute then remove it:
printOrder="Horizontal"
Then above answers should work.
Hope I'll save someone a day of googling the same stuff.
In my case doing as you advised didn't work. I had to modify your solution a little bit - I made a "frame" instead of grouping objects, and put previuosly grouped elements in that frame. I set positionType="Float" and stretchType="No stretch" in that frame, and set stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" to its child items - then it all works.
I have a text field followed by a static text field and I am trying to do 2 things with it:
Get the text field to stretch horizontally (not wrap) when text is longer then the field width and
Push the static text field right when the text field to the left of it stretches
Both of the fields are contained within a frame.
I have both fields set to positionType=float and the text field set to stretchWithOverflow=true, which enable text to wrap vertically but not stretch horizontally.
Is it possible to achieve 1 and 2 above? If so How?
Instead of having 2 text fields (dynamic and static), you can have 1 text field with value as $F{Field} + "statix text". This will probably fix your issue. Also, you can set the "width" and "stretch with overflow" properties, as per your requirements.
Well it's bad news!! According to Jaspersoft's documentation on stretching fields it is not possible to stretch the width of a field:
"Usually, the stretching process refers to the height adjustment only.
When stretching report elements, adjusting the width could affect also
the page width and raise unexpected errors at runtime (for instance,
truncated information could be printed out on pages). This is why
stretching an element let its width unchanged, while its height gets
definitely enlarged in order to make room for all information that
have to be displayed." (Jaspersoft documentation [v4.5.0], 2011)
However a solution to the original issue can be found here thanks to #mdahlman
Just select text field and from its textfield properties choose "stretch with overflow" and it will change its height dynamically according to text .enter image description here
I have a question about how border should display in detail band, and I would like to get some help.
Say, a column in detail band that might have LOTS data, by lots, I meant sometimes a single record might actually took 2~3 page to display.
Now customer ask that we should make report always display bottom line of the border as long as it meets end of page (even this record its not end yet)
What I tried:
Make a column footer with 1px height line.
Set "Floating column footer" to TRUE.
Result : It works great, but this line will make extra empty space at end of the table if there is a Summary band after the column footer. I think I am close, but I just can't get rid of the strange empty space
Make a Frame with border, set "Print when detail overflow" to TRUE then put everything in detail band into this frame.
Result : Not work as I expected :(
Since this report contains not just a table in detail band, and the height of the table are random. Tricks like a border in Background or Page Footer are not suitable here
What else can I do ?
There is a PrintWhenExpression trick that can help with the page footer:
How to hide Page X / Y when report is 1 page ? - JasperForge Forum
The trick is to put a flag in the Report Parameter Map, then use the flag to decide whether text (or fields, lines, etc.) should be printed.
To use a line in Page Footer there will always be some pages with extra line. In this case, the report is always starting from page 1, and the table in the report always end before printing the Summary band. That means, the line is no longer necessary as long as Summary band has been reached. Thus:
Add a line in Page Footer with PrintWhenExpression :
new Boolean(!(Boolean.TRUE).equals($P{REPORT_PARAMETERS_MAP}.get("stopFlag")))
Then make a dummy textField in Summary band with PrintWhenExpression like this :
$P{REPORT_PARAMETERS_MAP}.put("stopFlag",Boolean.TRUE)
This trick works, but might need some tweaking for different layouts.
The option given by Dave is right.
If you care about the space still being used, then set the band and textfield heights to zero.
In my case using Dave's option worked (and I needed no extra space to be used).
I put this as PrintWhenExpression in the fields I just wanted to show in the last page:
$P{REPORT_PARAMETERS_MAP}.get("lastPage")!=null
And this as PrintWhenExpression in a 0-height textfield in the 0-heigth summary band:
$P{REPORT_PARAMETERS_MAP}.put("lastPage",":)")
When it comes to page termination the options are limited. Its made even hard because if you have items that do not display when null it still assumes that space is used.
I would stick with messing around with the column footer or page footer as your best options.