verical line stretching to end of dynamic band

[loge]

Hi,

 

i have a tricky framing issue ongoing. See attachment 1 (idescreen.png) where you can see my iReport workbench. Attachment 2 (result.pdf) is the preview of the resulting PDF. I think i dont need to explain more here. I really need to have the vertical lines expand to the page footer (i dont have a column footer). The vertical lines are inside the "detail" band and i modified the "stretch" attribute of the line object in every possible way without luck.

 

Thanks for hints.

 

Marc

[Giulio Toffoli]

Use the background band to draw your rectangle.

 

Giulio

[loge]

I dont think this works too well because the start of the rectangle depends on what page is printed. On second page, i have different headers and this way the rectangle wouldnt be in the right position.

 

I am wondering why the vertical lines dont strech in the detail band. I assume that the detail band will be stretched to the footer elements in case of "not enough" data.

[Giulio Toffoli]

No, the band will just take the minimum amount of space it requires, but the background solution can still work using one or more rectangles in the background with a proper printWhen expression set to something like:

new Boolean( $V{REPORT_PAGE}.intValue() == 1)     // This one is used for the first page rectangle

new Boolean( $V{REPORT_PAGE}.intValue() >1)     // This one is used for the other pages.

Giulio

[loge]

Thanks. Yeah, this could be a perfect workaround. Feels nevertheless like a workaround but as long as it works, its fine. Its just not very self explaining :-)