Multi-line Table header

femibyte

Hi, can someone provide a code example as to how I can programmatically create a multi-line header section for a table in BIRT using the design API ?<br />
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Currently, I can create a single row header as follows:<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>TableHandle table = elementFactory.newTableItem( "table", reportCols.size() );
table.setWidth( "100%" );
table.setProperty( IReportItemModel.DATA_SET_PROP, DATA_SET_NAME );

RowHandle tableheader = (RowHandle) table.getHeader().get(0);

StyleHandle labelStyle = StyleCreator.createStyle(elementFactory,"label",
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_STYLE_NORMAL,
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD,
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_FAMILY_SERIF,
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_SIZE_XX_SMALL,
"#000000");</pre>
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I tried to add new rows to teh table header using something like this:<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>table.getHeader().add(elementFactory.newTableRow());
table.getHeader().add(elementFactory.newTableRow());</pre>
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and then<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>RowHandle tableheader0 = (RowHandle) table.getHeader().get( 0 );
RowHandle tableheader1 = (RowHandle) table.getHeader().get( 1 );</pre>
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but that didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mwilliams

Try using this constructor when you create the table. You can specify the number of header, detail, and footer rows when you create the table, rather than adding them later.<br />
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TableHandle table = elementFactory.newTableItem("table", reportCols.size(), 2, 1, 1); //newTableItem(java.lang.String name, int columnNum, int headerRow, int detailRow, int footerRow)
</pre>