Display character limit + Freeze header on table

dragosss24

Hello,

I would like your help. I have a table with lots of columns. One of columns has a data cell with comments (string). These comments are sometimes very long. I want to limit the chracters displayed to a max of 20 and on mose over to be displayed all the string. It is possible?

And the second problem - It's a bout the same table. It returns many rows. Is there a any chance to freeze the header on scrool down?

I'm using 3.6.1 platform on eclipse.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

kclark

You can use a dynamic text object in your table to truncate the comments and use helpText instead of the onMouseOver(). I've attached an example for you to take a look at. I dragged over a dynamic text into my table and used "" as the expression so BIRT wouldn't give me an error. Then I used this script in the onCreate() of the dynamic text.<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>var allText = row["CUSTOMERNAME"];
var tuncText = allText.substring(0,3);
this.text = tuncText;
this.helpText = allText;</pre>
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I used substring to truncate the string. I used a length of 3, but you can adjust this to 20 so it meets your needs. If you hover over the rows it will show the full string in the helpText.