Word Export Without Table

Sorry I am very new to BIRT but can I ask this question.

Is it possible to export to word without exporting the data into a table as it makes the report very difficult to post edit and our users often wish to post edit the reports.

We had the same problem with Crystal Reports and am trying to move to BIRT to get away from this.

Thanks very much for your help.

Just as a clarification all I want do is to have a report that contains two fields for each entry in a database table :

Name

Biographical Details

and then repeat for each entry in the database table.

I have no real requirement for spacing the fields out or anything as they just need to be left justified on the page.

As far as I can tell the only ways in BIRT to do this are to use either List or Table both of which give a table in Word when exported which I dont want.

I hope that is clear and sorry for any confusion caused by asking such a weird question.

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mwilliams

Hi fccobb,

The way the emitter works for exporting to Word, a table is going to be used every time. If you have the know how, you can go into the open source code and change the emitter to fit what you're looking for.

fccobb

Hi Michael

Thanks for the reply - I must admit I had thought of that although whether I could modify the source or not I'm not sure.

Certainly worth considering however as post editing is very difficult with any type of table or text box formatting. Some of our users just dont get tables.

I guess I would just have to work out a way of replacing table spacing with spaces or tabs on creation of the word file - I will have to think about it.

I like BIRT a lot so I will spend some time on this.

Thanks again.

Chris