| Design Suggestion [message #244493] |
Sun, 24 June 2007 00:06 |
Eclipse User |
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So BIRT is great. I bought the book but it is quickly becoming dated
with some of the new features in 2.2.
I'm wondering if anyone can suggest the best way to work with dynamic
text in reports. I've noticed that I can create a few "Dynamic Text"
boxes and load them up with a combination of HTML and VALUE-OF tags ie:
<strong>Accident Description</strong><br />
<VALUE-OF>row["accident"]</VALUE-OF><br />
<strong>Injury Description</strong><br />
<VALUE-OF>row["injury"]</VALUE-OF><br />
<strong>Treatment Description</strong><br />
<VALUE-OF>row["treatment"]</VALUE-OF><br />
<strong>Treatment Facility:</strong><br />
<VALUE-OF>row["treatment_facility"]</VALUE-OF><br />
<VALUE-OF>row["treatment_phone"]</VALUE-OF>
or
I can create a number of "Text" and "Data" elements moving them visually
and applying styles as I see fit.
Given that I plan to use libraries to store common style elements across
multiple reports, what is the reccomended way to work with text along
their placement and style.
Would the former create problems when exporting to PDF since I'm liable
to use randome combinations of HTML. Can I use styles inside my HTML
tags? ie. <div style="my_style"></div>
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