Hiding the Border of a table conditionally

Hi,
 
I've a simple table with 5 columns. The name of first column is Title. I've designed the xml to split the title into two block if the the length is huge. I cannot make use of BIRT internal wrap properties due to some limitation in our application. Hence i've manually split the text in different blocks in xml file.
 
Now I need to hide the bottom border in the generated report. If there is only title tag in the xml block, we can assume it as continuation of previous xml block. 
with this assumption is it possible to hide the bottom border conditionally?
 
or is there anything else that can be thought off 
 
I'm attaching the sample report, xml and a snapshot that contains actual output and expected output explained. 
Since i'm not able to attach the xml file, i'm pasting it over here - 
 
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<BookStore>
<Book>
<title>History</title>
<author>Tom</author>
<copies>10</copies>
<price>80</price>
<date>11/12/2014</date>
</Book>
<Book>
<title>Basic Mathematics</title>
<author>Roy</author>
<copies>5</copies>
<price>100</price>
<date>10/12/2013</date>
</Book>
<Book>
<title>Written by Jason</title>
</Book>
<Book>
<title>Java</title>
<author>Harry</author>
<author>Potter</author>
<copies>6</copies>
<price>100</price>
<date>08/12/2010</date>
</Book>
</BookStore></pre>
Any help on this would be very useful.. 
Thank You.
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Matthew L.

This can be accomplished by using a custom Style along with a highlight rule on the table row.
Attached is an example that demonstrates this.
 
Steps:
Remove borders from tables detail row.
Create custom Style with top border only.
Select table detail row and add highlight rule.
Apply Style using highlight condition on a blank cell.
Then select entire table and apply a bottom border so that the last row will have a bottom border.
 
Let me know if you need assistance looking through the example.

birt_ag

Hi Mathew,
 
Thanks for the reply. 
I went through the attached report. But the bottom border are not visible when i generated the report. 
can u confirm if the attached design is correct file ? 
I don't see any custom styles added to it.
 
I'll try with the steps mentioned above. 
 
Thank You.

Matthew L.

The output seems to work for me properly (See attached PDF output).
I've also attached an image that shows where the custom style "CustomTopBorder" is located and how it is used with the table rows.
 
If you are not seeing the same results as the PDF i've attached, please let me know which version of BIRT you are using and I will verify against that version as well.

birt_ag

Hi Matthew,
 
I'm using BIRT 4.3.1.
Eclipse BIRT Designer Version 4.3.1.v201309091055 Build <4.3.1.v20130917-1035>
 
Just verified the attached design file again. 
In PDF reports the borders are visible properly, whereas in DOC and DOCX the borders are not visible.
 
I tried replicating the steps u mentioned. And was able to achieve the desired result. 
But i need it for doc format too. Is there anything else that can be done to get the desired result in doc too.
 
Thank You very much for the help. 
Due to timezone difference i'm not able to reply on time.

Matthew L.

I've looked into the doc/docx output formats and it seems that the custom styles are not being applied through the Highlight rule.
 
Because of this, I've created a workaround (See attached example).
Add the following code to each of the data elements onCreate script method in the tables detail row.
This will add the border's when outputting to a doc/docx format.
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if(reportContext.getOutputFormat().slice(0,3)=="doc" && row["date"]!=null){
this.getStyle().borderTopStyle = "solid";
this.getStyle().borderTopWidth = "thin";
}
</pre>

birt_ag

Hi Matthew,
 
I tried with the script u gave above. 
Its working exactly the way i needed. 
Only thing i modified was adding bottom border to table header, so that in repeating pages also bottom border for the header is visible.
 
Thank You very much for the timely help and support.