how to support TOC (not Bookmark) in PDF exporter

[yamanko]

does jasper support TOC in PDF? i notice there is an attribute called 'bookmarkLevel' in text control, i can exporte report to pdf with bookmark, but not TOC.

it's weried that this attribute, as well as anchor name expression, can not edited in IDE (iReport), but only added in jasper report before compile it. what can i do if i need TOC in PDF, i think TOC is group attribute, it should be edited in group concept rather than text control like bookmark attribute.

does anyone have solution for TOC in PDF? im using jasper 3.7.1 now and i checked the release note of 3.7.2, no info related with TOC

[slow]

I'm not able at this time to make a detailed study of this example (I'm at work!)
so can you try to take a look to it?

http://jasperforge.org/website/jasperreportswebsite/trunk/samples.html?header=project&target=jasperreports

find in the page "Table of Contents Sample"

and then give us a report of you study :)

 

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[yamanko]

Hi, thanks for you suggestion.. i have found another solution for my requirement, im still using bookmark level to implement TOC in PDF, it finally works, even has some limitation. anyway, thanks for you reply.

 

[slow]

can you give to forum users details about your solution?

it's a good practice giving details of solved issue :)

 

 

[yamanko]

see following steps

1, add dummy group header and set this band's height as 1

2, add text control in this band and set this control's height as 1

3, set this control's value as " ", note that this is not blank string, there needs one character in this expression

4, set this control's hypelink, setting bookmark level anchor name

5, make sure this control's stretch with overflow is enabled

 

the PDF output seems good with above solution

[slow]

thanks... it's a good example...

have you find also a solution to create dinamic index (printed TOC , not bookmark)... uhm... with dinamic page number, link etc etc ?

 

 

[yamanko]

not yet..