Align text relatively to another dynamic one

[Kevin MIT]

Hi there,

I seem to encounter a problem nobody had before with Jaspersoft Studio:
Let's say that you have many lines that display data like this:

label1 : value1
label2 : value2
...

Because labels are generated dynamically (depending on user's language), they don't have a fixed size.
I'd like to align every " : " depending on the largest label:

label1                  :
label2                  :
veryLongLabel3 :
...

It seems that there is litterally no option to do that trick.
Maybe I've missed a very simple option but which one? If not, how would you do to have this kind on alignment ?

Thanks for your help!

[m.kamran]

Hi Kevin,

Please use separate labels/fields for your dynamic value and the static colon(:) text. That way your colon won't move, of course you need to keep the dynamic value's label/field to be long enough to contain the incoming values, hope that helps.

Thank you. 

[Kevin MIT]

Thanks for your answer.

That's what I did until now to deal with the problem. But it doesn't solve it.
In this case, the static colon text may be very far from the largest label text:
veryLongLabel3           :

But it's supposed to be right after.

[m.kamran]

Hi Kevin,

If you want the colon positioned right next to the values, that is not an issue since you can even append it to the incoming value (coming from your resultset). I reckon you want both,

- position of the colon next to each label, and

- colons vertically in-line with each other

I am afraid that won't be possible with variable sized incoming data. Please do correct me if I am wrong in the interpretation of your question.

Thanks.

 

[Kevin MIT]

You are right in the interpretation of my question.

I really thought it would be possible by any trick I wasn't aware yet but at least now I know it wasn't a lack of knowledge.

Thanks for your help, I really appreciated.

[m.kamran]

Thanks Kevin.