In Crystal Reports 2008, I need to have an accurate count of all of the lines that have been displayed in a sub report.
I'm using a shared variable and incrementing as needed when lines display. The only problem I'm having now is when a field wraps. We are not using a fixed width font, so going by field length does not solve the issue, as 'i' is not as wide as 'w' and so on.
Is there a way to find out if the data in a field will be wrapped, and if so how many lines it wraps to, or is there a way to find out what the height of the section that the field is in (or the field itself) has grown too?
Or, is there an even better way to count how many lines have actually displayed on the sub report?
No, there is no way to do what you describe.
If you used a fixed-width font, you could then do some math based based on "it wraps at X characters" do if length of string is 100, then it went 2 lines, etc.
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I have a field that I'm sure does not have white space in it at a certain location, but for some reason Crystal Reports is automatically adding space to the field but only after X's in certain scenarios. This is a text field which I'm sure is pulling down from a text field in the db as well.
This is hard to explain without a pictured example, so here's what I mean:
Random Spaces
As you can see, there is whitespace after the X's. it should not be there, as this is not what is coming from the db. And strangely, when copy/pasted from the report, there is no white space either! Here it is when copy/pasted straight from the report:
"Test 15dig w spaces XXXXXXXXXXX2345"
Why is this occurring, and how can it be corrected? Currently there is no real formula for the field, it is just taking whatever it coming from the db straight into that field. The whitespace is being added automatically somehow, and I'm not sure at all why.
Here is what I've tried: Have tried calling ToText on the field (even though it is already a text field). Have also tried formatting the field in various different ways. Tried asking on SAP forum but no help as of yet.
Copy & Paste the text "Test 15dig w spaces XXXXXXXXXXX2345" into a text object in Crystal. Apply the same font and formatting (use the brush toolbar button to clone the formatting).
If you don't see the same strange space, the problem is due to non-printable characters in the database field. In that case, you can strip away such characters using a formula and the Replace() function.
I have a field that I'm displaying on a report that is a combination of text and codes that represent an image. Some of those icons have ascii symbols that I've used a replace formula to display them as their ascii version. For two or three of the images, I have no luck and have to display a mini picture for the representation.
The codes being sent are something like:
^he^ = ♥ ^st^ = ⭐ ^cl^ = 🍀 etc...
So for the clover leaf, there is no emoji support in my version of Crystal for clover leaves, and the ascii icon I found online for it just shows the empty square icon when an emoji isn't supported.
My workaround for this is to have a formula that converts all my icons to the appropriate ascii where supported, and to leave two blank spaces for the unsupported icons.
>stringvar gift_msg;
>gift_msg:= {DataTable1.gift_field};
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^CL^"," ");
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^HE^","♥");
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^ST^","★");
>gift_msg
I then put a suppression formula on each image that looks like this:
>mid({DataTable1.gift_field},2,4)<>"^CL^"
So I duplicated the image along the length of the field and increment the mid formula to match the field. I also set the font to Consolas so that it's fixed width to remove any surprises in spacing. My issue is that this still creates very strange spacing, and I'm almost certain there's a much easier way to do this.
One option is to use a free service such as Calligraphr.com to convert your image to a font.
Given that your image relies on several colors, the font option might not work.
Another option is to build the expression as html with image source directives where you need them. You would then need a create or use a 3rd-party UFL to convert the full expression to an image that you can load on the fly using the Graphic Location expression. At least one of the UFLs listed by Ken Hamady here provides such a function.
I am new to fop , will be greatful if i get help from someone...,
I am not using XSLT tranformation but creating XSLFO file directly using Java code. Everything works fine but the problem comes when particular word(long text without space) is inserted into a cell of a table-column . That bigger word is overlapping the successive block.
I have an fo:block element in fo:table-cell which is in fo:table-row of a fo:table. This table has 6 columns, obviously column width is small. Now, when a Word in the block is larger than the block it is overlapping the next block. Give me some attribute value or any other solution to change my XSLFO file ,so that the bigger word breaks into the new line at end of the column.
Thanks in advance...
The things you need to look into are:
For the fo:table-cell: number-columns-spanned="3"
For setting the width of fo:table-column: column-width="proportional-column-width(1.5)"
The number-columns-spanned is used as attribute of and provides you with a means to select a bigger area where your fo:block fits.
The column-width makes it easy to define absolute width or, when using proportional-column-width, a width relative to the other columns.
I don't know of a way that lets FOP break words into multiple parts when they don't fit.
I've got a report that needs to print as landscape letter size. This report uses a detailed header for the 1st page, and a more concise header for every other page. The problem I'm running into is that having both headers defined in iReport has made the report too large to fit the letter size constraints (in terms of height).
When I print the report, the correct headers display on their correct pages, but the report is too large and contains massive amounts of whitespace. The printer then tries to center the report and ends up clipping portions of the header and footer so I only get the midsection of the report.
Is there some way to configure my report to have 2 versions of 1 report band (in this case the pageHeader band) and then just provide an expression to determine when each version should print? Or can I group bands together somehow so that iReport knows they occupy the same space?
Any help is appreciated.
I couldn't ever find any sort of fancy way of doing this, so I just made the 2 headers into subreports and included both in the same location on the pageHeader band. Problem solved.
I am trying to make part of array text into superscript inside my formula field. I tried rendering the field as HTML with a tag but it seems it is not supported. Following did not work
numberVar array arr:=["1<sup>st</sup>"];
Is there a way round this problem ?
It turns out Crystal Reports works with superscript, only the same way as Visual Studio does. Just copy/paste one of these: ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰
As far as I'm aware, Crystal Reports doesn't support superscript at all, not for HTML (see here for supported tags if interested), or for RTF.
Off the top of my head, you would need two separate textboxes to achieve this effect, with the "st" text at a higher Y-position than the "1" to get "1st".