Two-Up Listing

I just need to list my simple report in 2-up format, either in one of the followings: (where 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are values from the same column, customer names for example)
1 - 2
3 - 4
5 - 6

or

1 - 4
2 - 5
3 - 6

The data is from a DB2 table connected via JDBC. Thank you in advance for any help.

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mwilliams

Hi tdsc1237, 
 
Check out the following post from the devShare, it should help you out: 
 
<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> 
 
Let me know if you have any questions.

tdsc1237

Thank you for your suggestion via the "Employeeafter.rptdesign". Unfortunately this example wouldn't work for me since it lists output using "grouping". I just need a simple straight-up listing, showing output from top-to-bottom on the left half of the page, and then top-to-bottom on the right half of the page. The output volume (number of lines) is dynamic, which can change regularly. This is just to save output hardcopy printouts, that's all. Thanks.

mwilliams

tdsc1237,

It would be the same idea, just without the groups. You'd probably have to create a computed column that did a running count of your rows, drop a 2 column / 1 row grid into your report, drop a table into each cell bound to the dataSet, and put the fields you want out of the dataSet into both tables. In the right table, you'd filter with an expression like row["runningCount"]%2 equal to 0. In the left table, you'd filter with the expression above equal to 1. This should alternate them back and forth like:

1 - 2
3 - 4
5 - 6
etc.

Hope this helps.

tdsc1237

Michael,

That was a great advice. I successfully listed 2-up report using your suggestion. I used "top percent = 50" and "bottom percent = 50" as filters on parallel tables and it worked great. Thank You. T. Tran

mwilliams

T. Tran,

No problem, glad to help. Let us know whenever you have questions.