[Help] Newbie's crosstab design problems

dgtnk

<p>Hello!</p><p> </p><p>I'm a newbie to birt (Version 4.3.1) and currently learning to design reports. I created a crosstab in the report as attached. I used JavaScript to set the background color and number format of each cell. But i still have several problems:</p><p> </p><p>1. Could I dynamiclly set the width of each ROW HEADER column (green background part) to keep the row header in one line?</p><p> </p><p>2. Could I repeat the ROW HEADER columns (green background part) on the right side of the crosstab? Because sometimes the crosstab is so wide and this repeat could help users to read the report.</p><p> </p><p>3. Can I merge the blank cells on the topleft corner (orange background part) into one cell and write something in the cell?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any suggestions are appreciated!</p>

kclark

<p>To alternate the row colors for your crosstab you could set some sort of counter variable from the initialize of the report</p><pre class="_prettyXprint">reportContext.setPersistentGlobalVariable("counter", "0")</pre><p>Then you could create a highlight rule.  Use something like the following for the expression.</p><pre class="_prettyXprint">var counter = parseInt(reportContext.getPersistentGlobalVariable("counter"))if(counter == 0) { reportContext.setPersistentGlobalVariable("counter", "1");}else{ reportContext.setPersistentGlobalVariable("counter", "0");}counter</pre><p>Then have the check "equal to" 0 and select your background color.</p><p> </p><p>I don't think you can merge thoes cells in a crosstab but you might be able to remove the border from some JavaScript.</p>