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Populating a table column-by-column

Dermot

Hi, I'm using BIRT 3.2.3 on Eclipse 3.4.2
I'm trying to do something I thought would already be done but can't find it anywhere.

I have a number of columns on a page and I want to populate the columns in the order that they appear.
I only want to populate the second column only when the first column is full.
I need to do this because I want the table contents all on same page, until the page is full.
The number of elements in my table varies with each execution so I can not calculate the number of rows.

The contents of my table depend on the previous values in the table so I have to populate the cells in the table in sequence.

Any suggestions/solutions would be a great help.

Thank you.

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Dermot

I'll try to clarify my problem a little better.

A table is normally populated one row at a time and the next row is not populated until the current row is finished.

row1:item1 | row1:item2 | row1:item3
row2:item1 | row2:item2 | row2:item3
row3:item1 | row3:item2 | row3:item3

I have a case where I want to populate the columns first. I'm looking for a way to populate the cell in row1:item1 then populate the cell in row2:item1... when the first column is populated I want to then fill in the cell in row1:item2, then the cell in row2:item2, ....

I hope that clarifies my question a little :blink:

Dermot

Another solution to my problem could be to place a table beside itself on the same page. So, at the moment I have a narrow table that spans a number of pages when printed.

table
<pagebreak>
table
<pagebreak>
table
<pagebreak>
table

But I'm trying to place all the tables on the same page.

table table table table
<pagebreak>

But I don't know if this can be done?

Dermot

For any one who needs to know, the solutions is in BIRT 2.5.2.

Quoting Jason Weathersby from another forum:
"Right now (2.5.2) the only way to do this is to use a grid
with 3 columns and put the same table in each grid and then filter the
row number(add computed column to calc rownumber) on each table. Take a
look at the attached example. You also may want to investigate crosstabs."

Regards.

nnish

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'Dermot'" data-cid="65404" data-time="1276090201" data-date="09 June 2010 - 06:30 AM">
Hi, I'm using BIRT 3.2.3 on Eclipse 3.4.2 
I'm trying to do something I thought would already be done but can't find it anywhere. 
 
I have a number of columns on a page and I want to populate the columns in the order that they appear. 
I only want to populate the second column only when the first column is full. 
I need to do this because I want the table contents all on same page, until the page is full. 
The number of elements in my table varies with each execution so I can not calculate the number of rows. 
 
The contents of my table depend on the previous values in the table so I have to populate the cells in the table in sequence. 
 
Any suggestions/solutions would be a great help. 
 
Thank you. </blockquote>
 
Did you get a solution for this ? Can you share it ?

mwilliams

Hi nnish,

As stated above in Dermot's last post, you'll have to use a grid, tables, and filters to do something like this. BIRT 2.6.0 was going to have a feature that would allow column wrapping automatically like this, but it was not finished in time for the release. It will be in a future version though.

Note: I'm moving this thread to the designing BIRT reports forum.