I'm getting very frustrated here.
What alternative to margin-bottom do you use in e-mail templates?
I have resorted to using tables to format email templates for outlook. You can create a row and column 5-10px wide on both sides or top and bottom of one big cell, and then i just put my standard code in the main table cell. It's kind of clunky, but it solves the problem.
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I am designing an email template. I have a running list of brand names hyperlinked to their websites. I would like it to be displayed inline for full-width, and stacked for narrow screens. I had separators in the past like a bullet or a vertical rule such as this: "|". But in mobile it's awkward considering only one name appears per line.
The next thing I tried was to enclose each list item in a border, but Outlook10/13 aren't handling the padding and margin as you know. I want a simple solution that I can show to novices when they populate the template. Any ideas? I'm adding screenshots of what I tried with the borders. But any other idea is welcome.
Thanks!!!
Full Width:
Mobile:
I have tried a lot of ways myself and one thing i found out was having logos in place of links often work better. I know images have to be downloaded but once they are downloaded it looks good. If you do go with images, you can style the alt tags to look like above when its not loaded.
I'm using the orgwiz command line tool to auto generate an organisation chart to update every night.
It's all working as expected, apart from the fact that the text for some shapes overflows.
Does anyone know if there is a way to autoresize the text automatically somehow, whether that be from the command line or injecting a scripting call to iterate through the pages and resizing the text automagically? It all has to be done unattended.
Appreciate any help,
Tony
Modify the spahe masters so they resize based on the text.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa200988(v=office.10).aspx#377
I have a 2008 SSRS Report that is being export to as MS Word doc using the standard Export functionality provided by the SSRS tool. Even though the data on the report is textual in nature and resides in text boxes, the Export is rendering the text using tables. This formatting is too cumbersome for the users. Is ther a way to adjust how an MS Word is rendered using the SSRS Export functionality
The regular export can be pretty ugly. OfficeWriter has export functionality that can be a bit prettier. If you need a ton of control over the style of the resulting word documents you should take a look at it.
DISCLAIMER: I'm one of the engineers who built the latest version.
Is ther a way to adjust how an MS Word is rendered using the SSRS Export functionality?
No
MS word and SSRS are like the long lost friends still trying to figure out things on rendering. One way I dealt with this problem is to make sure there is a master tablix and the rows are filled with the tablix calls the information to be displayed and aligned. If there is any sort of information to be displayed together place a different tablix and try to avoid using the row visibility which have heavy chance to leave empty space when rendered to word.
And there are chances of the header and footer to be truncated. To solve this place a text box above the entire header and below the footer make sure the textbox font color is white to hide the textbox.
I want to have this layout in Crystal Reports:
How can I do this? If it cant be done in CR or SSRS, is there any other alternatives?
I don't believe this can be done with Crystal Reports. I'm not as familiar with SSRS, but after looking through the field options I don't believe it can be done with it either. In general field locations are set static in reporting solutions.
I think this would be best done with html/css or even XSL. I don't know the scope of the issue, but I'd assume that you should be able to output an html or xml file from your application which could be opened with a web browser. For html you should be able to use the align or even float attributes or text-align in css to accomplish this.
I hope this helps.
If you want to have multiple columns of static text in Crystal Reports, then you'd just have to get creative with multiple text boxes, i.e. create 2 text boxes side-by-side and add text to each one until it looks right.
If you want to have 2 columns of data, here's how:
Keep it simple and start with a blank report.
Add your fields of interest to the details section. Resize them so that they only use the first 4 inches of space.
Go into your Section Expert->Details and turn on the Format with Multiple Columns option.
A new tab will appear called Layout. For this example, let's set the Width to 4 inches and leave the Gaps at 0.
Preview your report. If you have enough data in your dataset, it will automatically flood over to the right side of your screen.
It'll take a few minutes of fidgeting with the measurements to get everything looking the way you want. You can even have more than 2 columns if you set the Detail Width small enough.
Also, there is also an option in the Layout menu called "Format Groups with multiple column". It's hard to describe in text, but play with this if you have any grouping levels.
I migrate application from Swing to SWT and cannot find out how to make table headers in SWT multiline and also TabItems to have multiline text. In Swing it was not problem but in SWT no way. For table header I found that on linux it is working but I need it for windows. I tried \n and <br> but nothing.
You might find this useful:
http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0280__SWT/MultilineTablecell.htm
You need to override some events generated when the table is painted and modify the cell size according to the number of text lines in the cell. I'm not sure if the events are same for header cells though. Suggest you try it out and post a comment back here :-)