Broken phrase in a cell

Hi!

I´m showing a data from a data base in a cell of a table using a Dynamic Text with the expression: 'row["description"]' where description is a column of my Data Set. But if the description is longer than the cell´s width, it doesn´t show all the phrase and there isn´t a carry return.

What's wrong?? How can i do it to keep the width and shows all the description in many lines?

Thanks and regards!

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Jarry

For more details, you can view this image. In column "Descripción" we can see the problem. The really data is "asdfasdfmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeee".

Regards!

mwilliams

Hi Jarry,

What version of BIRT are you using?

Jarry

Hi mwilliams,

the version is 2.3.1

mwilliams

Jarry,

Is this for all outputs that you're experiencing this, or just a certain one? Also, are you setting specific widths on your columns in your table? Just trying to figure more out about your setup so that I can try to recreate your exact situation. If you could create a sample report that I can run, that would be even better. Thanks.

Jarry

mwilliams,

the problem is fixed. Actually, there wasn´t any problem. The problem was my string example. I was trying with strings without spaces ("aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbcccccccccccddddddddddd"), and BIRT can´t cut a word. When I try with a real data, for example "This is a very long description for the article number five.", there is no problem.

I'm sorry for my mistake.

Thanks and regards!

mwilliams

Jarry,

Good to hear. Let us know if you have any other questions.

fwhorton

But what do you do if the text just happens to be longer than the column width?