Word Wrapping Report Fields

[tellygeorge]

I am using iReport 3.7.6.

 

I have a text field that I would like to have so that if the string is stores is very long it could be wrapped onto a second or possibly third line. I would like however that there is not extra space reserve if the string can fit on one line.

I have put in to code area the XML code from the report with the particular field I want to work on

How can I get this done in JasperReports?

 

<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$F{bus_name}]]></textFieldExpression> [/code]

 

[Ankur Gupta]

Hi,

You can simply do this by setting two properties

1. You need to locate two properties of the text fields in the Property Window (in iReport) namely, Stretch With Overflow = true and Stretch Type = 'Relative to the tallest'(This property is also set for all the other elements in row, to simultaneously take the height of the larger element which will maintain the uniformity and also help in seemless XLS output.)
Or in terms of XML you need to set this property 

<textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">

<reportElement uuid="99cc5ce6-e225-4f2d-978c-9dab78f0ffc0" stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" x="402" y="40" width="294" height="14"/>

 

2.  If done via iReport, you just need to set these two and word wrap will work like a charm.

 

Hope that this help

 

Thanks 
Ankur Gupta 
http://ankurthetechie.blogspot.in/

[tellygeorge]

Thanks Ankur. I will give this a try and see what happense

[tellygeorge]

Thanks Ankur:

 

I  am going to try this out and see if it works.

 

Regards,

Telly