Page control within XLS reports

[2001 JI Open Discussion]

By: Alexandru Cârstoiu - acarstoiu

Page control within XLS reports

2005-03-09 02:50

Hi everybody.

 

I'm writting this so as to bring to your attention a pagination issue in XLS exporter.

 

Generally, when asking for XLS reports, people do not want pagination, they just want to have a plain table of data. I propose to have a parameter defined in JRXlsExporterParameter that would simply bypass any page size computations, something like IS_PAGINATION_ENABLED. Ok, maybe for some guys who still want some page separation, say JasperReports would still honour explicit page breaks (groups that require a new page). In which case the parameter would be named IS_IMPLICIT_PAGINATION_ENABLED.

 

Looking forward for any comments.