Cannot bend BIRT designer to my will

system_migrated

I am finding the BIRT designer to be completely frustrating. So far I have been unable to do the following

1 Align a header vertically in the middle. I have tried setting this property on every single element that could be related to the header and still in Preview the text aligns to the top

2 Cannot set properties on cell border (see previous post). I created a style with a simple border and yet when I apply the style, the border is a thick line instead of a thin one. Sometimes. Sometimes I get the border I want.

Is it user error or is the layout editor of this tool unusable? I was excited when I first heard about BIRT and especially jsf4birt, but I cannot spend 2 hours just to get the table borders the way I want them. And then have them appear completely different the next time I look at them.

TDR

mwilliams

Hi TDR,

I've not seen the border issue before. I'll have to look at your other post to see what you're doing there. As for centering a label in the middle, vertically. BIRT currently uses a grid style approach to pushing elements to where you want them. If you want a label to be pushed to the middle of a page and want nothing below it, you'd just put a 1 column, 2 row grid in your report design area, make the height of the first cell just under half of the length of your page size, then put the label in the second cell and choose page break after always in the property editor for the second cell. This would do it. Let me know if you have questions.