Subreport doesn't float

By: Tom Geyzen - tomgeyzen
Subreport doesn't float
2002-12-11 03:01
Hi,

I'm having a problem with the positioning of a subreport : it always showes up at the specified y coordinate hence ignoring positionType="Float".
This is the xml :

<staticText>
<reportElement x="0" y="40" width="555" height="60" forecolor="#111111" positionType="Float"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Center" lineSpacing="Single">
<font reportFont="Arial_Bold" size="14"/>
</textElement>
<text>Message Content</text>
</staticText>
<textField isStretchWithOverflow = "true">
<reportElement x="10" y="65" width="500" height="100" isRemoveLineWhenBlank="true"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Left" lineSpacing = "Single">
<font size="8" />
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String">$F{PAYLOAD}.replace('\r', '\0')</textFieldExpression>
</textField>
<rectangle>
<reportElement x="0" y="65" width="555" height="100" mode="Transparent" positionType="Float"/>
<graphicElement stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject"/>
</rectangle>

<!--The subreport with the hit details-->
<subreport isUsingCache="false">
<reportElement x="0" y="150" width="555" height="1" backcolor="#FFFFDD" positionType="Float" isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="true"/>
<subreportParameter name="Id">
<subreportParameterExpression>
$F{PK}
</subreportParameterExpression>
</subreportParameter>
<connectionExpression>
$P{REPORT_CONNECTION}
</connectionExpression>
<subreportExpression class="java.lang.String">
"SUB.jasper"
</subreportExpression>
</subreport>

Any ideas anyone ??

tia

tom




By: Boris Klug - bklug
RE: Subreport doesn't float
2003-12-03 06:49
I solved it by myselft. The two subreports overlap so they cant float.
See msg http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1609974




By: Boris Klug - bklug
RE: Subreport doesn't float
2003-12-03 06:39
I have the same problem - does anybody solve this?

I have two subreports in the detail in a master report.




By: Teodor Danciu - teodord
RE: Subreport doesn't float
2003-12-03 06:53

Hi,

I don't have a sample with your XML, Boris, but if you
look at Tom's report, you'll see that he has a subreport
placed at y="150".
He wants this subreport to float if the text field
above stretches downwards.
But the problem is that the text field starts at y="65"
and goes to 65 + 100 = 165.
This means that the subreport and the text field
are in fact overlapping in the report design.
Overlapping elements do not float.
In order for the text field to push the subreport,
there has to be a gap between them, or at least
they should not overlap.

In Tom's case, the solution is to modify the height
of the text field from 100 to 85. This way, the bottom
of the text field would be at pixel 149. And since the
subreport will start at pixel 150, then in will be pushed
downwards in case the text field stretches.

I hope this helps.
Teodor


I hope this helps.
Teodor





By: Boris Klug - bklug
RE: Subreport doesn't float
2003-12-05 07:56
Thank you Theodor!

See my message above,
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1609974 solved it - the two subreports overlapped.





By: Honghai Zhang - haroldzhang
do not see subreport contents displayed
2003-12-05 11:29
Hi,

I want a sub report printed in the group footer. Here is the xml

<groupFooter>
<band height="600">
<subreport isUsingCache="true">
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="585" height="500" positionType="Float"/>
<subreportExpression class="java.lang.String">
"EmailSetup.jasper"
</subreportExpression>
</subreport>
</band>
</groupFooter>

And here is the subreport EmailSetup.xml:

<jasperReport
name="EmailSetup"
pageWidth="585"
pageHeight="842"
leftMargin="0"
rightMargin="0"
topMargin="0"
bottomMargin="0">

<detail>
<band height="500">
<staticText>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="140" height="10"/>
<textElement>
<font fontName="serif" size="10" pdfFontName="Times-Roman"/>
</textElement>
<text>MSA #</text>
</staticText>
<line>
<reportElement x="140" y="10" width="200" height="0"/>
<graphicElement stretchType="NoStretch"/>
</line>
<staticText>
<reportElement x="340" y="0" width="100" height="10"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Right">
<font fontName="serif" size="10" pdfFontName="Times-Roman"/>
</textElement>
<text>Quote ID #</text>
</staticText>
<line>
<reportElement x="440" y="10" width="145" height="0"/>
<graphicElement stretchType="NoStretch"/>
</line>
</band>
</detail>

</jasperReport>

But I don't see anything from sub report EmailSetup gets displayed in the main report.

Can you see what is wrong with what I am doing?




By: Gregory A. Swarthout - gswarthout
RE: do not see subreport contents displayed
2003-12-05 12:31
A field height of 10 is almost certainly too short to show a font size of 10. Try doubling the field height for starters then scale it back as necessary.




By: Honghai Zhang - haroldzhang
RE: do not see subreport contents displayed
2003-12-10 07:41
I doubled the field height and I still don't see the sub report being displayed.




By: Teodor Danciu - teodord
RE: do not see subreport contents displayed
2003-12-10 07:46

Hi,

You have not supplied any data source to your
subreport.
I don't see <connectionExpression>
or <dataSourceExpression> used in your example.

In this case, the engine has nothing to iterate on and
by default nothing gets generated for the subreport.
However, if you want to see some parts of the
subreport even there is no data for it, use
whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" in your
subreport template.

I hope this helps.
Teodor