create empty rows in table

pulapalli

hi,

I have created a report using birt 2.1. report contains one dataset and table.

I am displaying all the data in table(detail section). if query returns more than 8 rows, we have no issues. if query retruns less than 8 rows, still we need to show 8 rows. ex. if query returns 6 rows, then report should display six rows of data and two empty rows.

how can we create empty rows in table?

Thanks.
Suresh

mwilliams

Hi Suresh,

Attached you'll find a report showing one way to do this. I added extra footer rows to my table. I only added 5 because it was enough for my example, but you could add all 8 for the case where you return no data. I then initialized a variable in my report's initialize method. I incremented this variable in the detail row's onCreate method. Then, in each extra footer row added, I used a visibility expression to hide or show the extra row when needed, based on the incremented variable. I put borders around the rows so you could see it's working correctly.

This report was made with BIRT 2.1.3. Hope it helps. Let me know if you have questions.