Change/Rotate Text Direction in Birt Grid/Table/Crosstab using Labels or Text Item

prince_iam

Dear Folks,
I am just wandering around the internet to look for a very simple solution to change/rotate the text direction in Birt Grid and achieve the result illustrated below, though it seems very simple yet I couldn't find any workable solution to achieve this result.

Matthew L.

You can rotate text by using a plugin in BIRT.
Make sure BIRT is completely closed out.
Then download the following 3 jar files and place them in your BIRT "/plugins/" folder:
https://github.com/innoventsolutions/innoventsolutions.github.io/tree/master/2.5.2/plugins

Then start BIRT back up (might take a bit longer to load than normal).
Once loaded, in your Palette tab you should now see "RotatedText" and "DotBar" in your Report Items category.
The Rotated Text element works similar to a "Data" element but with rotation abilities.

For reference, here is how to call the element using JavaScript:

//http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/
//https://github.com/innoventsolutions/innoventsolutions.github.io/tree/master/2.5.2/plugins
rotatedText=elementFactory.newExtendedItem("ex1", "RotatedText");
rotatedText.setProperty("rotationAngle", "90");
rotatedText.setProperty("text", "\"BIRT\"");
rotatedText.setProperty("wrapPoint", "0in");
rotatedText.setProperty("linkURL", "\"www.Actuate.com\"");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontFamily", "sans-serif");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontSize", "30pt");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontStyle", "italic");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontWeight", "bold");
rotatedText.setProperty("color", "#FF0000");

reportContext.getReportRunnable().designHandle.getBody().add(rotatedText);