Subreports: getting positionType='Float' to work?

[german-b]

  I'm trying to get the positionType="Float" feature to work in a simple scenario with subreports. For some reason, both subreports are displayed taking both x and y. Am I doing something wrong? Here's my jrxml ... assume the subreport is some silly arbitrary static stuff.

Thanks!

 

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report name" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="535" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20">    <parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">        <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["C:\reportFolder\"]]></defaultValueExpression>    </parameter>    <background>        <band/>    </background>    <detail>        <band height="200">                <subreport>                        <reportElement positionType="FixRelativeToTop" x="19" y="0" width="200" height="50"/>                        <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource()]]></dataSourceExpression>                        <subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "report1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>                </subreport>                <subreport>                        <reportElement positionType="Float" mode="Transparent" x="19" y="20" width="200" height="50" backcolor="#FFFF66"/>                        <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource()]]></dataSourceExpression>                        <subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "report1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>                </subreport>        </band>    </detail></jasperReport>

[lucianc]

Your subreports are overlapping.  Set y="50" for the second subreport.

HTH,

Lucian

[german-b]

Thanks Lucian!

I realized this yesterday. Since the docs said that in this case y is ignored, I didn't think its value mattered at all. So, in order to have it float, you need to place it right below the previous element according to its declared position and height.

[plunavat]

Make Position Typt to "float" and make Stretch Type to "no stretch"