Cell comment for excel report

sankap

<p>Hello.</p>
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<p>In excel we can add comment for any cell. Does Birt have this functionality? Or is there a workaround?</p>
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Hawaiian Geff

<p>In commercial BIRT you can add labels to the report and with Interactive Viewer the contents can be modified.</p>
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<p>For both open source and commercial BIRT, you can add a text area using HTML tags in a Text control.  Put this text control in a table row using the record id to make a unique bookmark.  Then persist the comments in a database using a write back method as described here <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://blogs.actuate.com/writing-back-to-a-database-and-other-posts-from-this-week/'>http://blogs.actuate.com/writing-back-to-a-database-and-other-posts-from-this-week/</a></p&gt;
<p>You would need to add the appropriate client side scripting in the report to get which table record's text box changed and pass its value into the java class.</p>