Absolute Positioning of Components

Anzak

I am currently having an issue with programmatically creating a ReportDesignHandle object as I require to absolutely position various components on the report.

I can not find very much documentation on absolute positioning in BIRT but the few articles I did find seemed to say it was achieved through scripting, I do believe that I can solve this using scripting but I would prefer a better solution as I would have to reposition every component after creating the report.

I have had a good look through the API and the FreeForm object seems to be the layout object I need to use but I can not find any documentation on how to use it. Could anyone point me in the right direction of how I can programmatically position elements on a ReportDesignHandle object?

Regards,
William
(BIRT version 2.3.2)

vcaselli

We are having the same issue (not being able to apply absolute positioning).<br />
Is there a way to do it, like with Jasper?<br />
In this two year's old post<br />
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/6707-how-use-free-form.html'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/6707-how-use-free-form.html</a><br />
Scott Rosenbaum says that the Free Form feature was not implemented at that time.<br />
What is the status now? We are using the Galileo M7 package JEE-BIRT.<br />
What the customers are asking us is a way to programmatically change the x,y position of report items (when generating the .rptdesign file at run-time) in an arbitrary way, also allowing overlapping in some cases.<br />
The desired output is PDF.<br />
I do not find samples or tutorial on this issue.<br />
<br />
Regards<br />
Vincenzo Caselli