3 column dispaly of data in PDF using BIRT 2.3.1

Hello Everyone,

How can we display the data in 3 column format in PDF as provided in the screen shot?

My datasource is of XML type.

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mwilliams

Hi Naveen123, 
 
If I'm understanding what you're looking for correctly, you'll probably want to do something like in the following devShare post: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/510-sample-birt-parallel-sections-example/#description'>Sample BIRT Parallel Sections Example - Designs & Code - BIRT Exchange</a> 
 
A grid, multiple tables, and filters are used to make a parallel type output.

Naveen123

Hi,

Michael thanks for the suggestion.

Let me explain the problem clearly. I have only a single dataset coming from an XML datasource. I have used a grid and table in order to arrange in such an order to get the valid data. But now this data has to be displayed in 4 column format(Newspaper style format)

Scenario:

I have a the following heirarchy...
Society-->Company--->category--->Members...

Display Style required

In page1

S1 m10 C3
C1 m11 c1
c1 c2 m1
m1 m1 m2
m2 m2 S2
m3 m3 C1
. C2 c1
. c1 .
. m1 .
. m3 .after this continue in page 2

end of page 1

I need the above format display in PDF. I could able to get the organised data
but i am stuck in displaying it in the above format .

I also used list and inside list i inserted a grid in the detail row,reside the grid to 20% and changed it to "inline" display. but it did not work in PDF.

Any kind of suggestion for this problem from anyone is appreciated...

TIA
Naveen

mwilliams

Naveen,

So, with the way your data is arranged, you can't create a computed column that counts the rows and divides them up using filters and/or grouping? If you could number the rows and section them out, this can be achieved fairly easily with the parallel style report from my earlier post.