How to define crosstab header for row dimensions

I have another question regarding xTabs I searched the forum and googled but had no luck. Do any of you know if there is a way to add headers for each row dimensions?

I can have up to six dimensions on a row so our users want to see header labels (Year State County City Zip, etc)

I figured out that I can add a grid on an xTab header and within each cell add a label. But then when I run the report in auto layout the width of the labels are not aligned to the width of the row dimensions making the output ugly.

It seems to me that one should be able to define the "header labels" associated to each row dimension, is this possible?

Fixed layout appears to be closer to what I need but the issue is that when I have 10-30 measures BIRT compresses everything to a fixed width and cutting of the majority of the data thus making is illegible.

Does anyone know how to do this?

BTW Iam using BIRT 2.5.2

Thanks,

Max

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JasonW

Max,

Have you tried to insert a pagebreak on the column after every few measures so fixed will work?

Jason

MMirabito

Jason,

I am not sure I follow what you are saying, but the way it?s behaving on my side with fixedlayout is that the rendering is forced to squish all the measure columns making them illegible.

Max

JasonW

Max,

Look at this (Horizontal page break support):
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/notable2.3.php#jump_10

and then check the attached report.

Jason

MMirabito

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the link and report I think this will do the trick.

Best Regards,

Max