Html Exporter - Outlook/2007 support

Changed Assigned User from - to @lucianc

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A subreport produces overlapping elements because it internally creates a rectangle element beneath the subreport elements. That's something that we intend to change at some point, but there's are some technical details that make the change a little problematic.

 

What we could do is to introduce a parameter/property for the new exporter to inhibit it from exporting overlapping elements. With that property set, its output would be more or less similar to the one of the old exporter. How does that sounds to you? Are there any other reasons for which you don't want to see the old exporter go?

 

Regarding Outlook 2007, it's not indeed a target supported platform for JR's HTML exporter. We could look into it, if the required changes are simple and non intrusive we would consider them.

 

Regards,

Lucian

Adding such a property might be useful but I am not sure it would resolve the problem.

Because it is said that nested divs are kind of problem in outlook.

 

But still this property would ensure people to use new exporter if anything goes wrong with the layers.

I am really not that familiar with html but since there are lost of clients to view html, it would be a good option for new exporter integration if needed.

 

For outlook, its a really time consuming work. Probably not that needed changes are hard to do, but finding out whats need to be changed.

 

I just got an idea but not sure its a good one. (And I dont know if it is be done with the current exporters)

 

Using some different classes to export elements ( ex: setting TableExporter,ImageExporter etc. class)

So if we want to change something about how to export a specific element, we could override it.

But it seems so much work for such a problem.

 

 

 

Changed Severity from Minor to Major

Changed Reproducibility from N/A to Always

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Hi guys,I am having the same problem. What I experience is this: Every subreport is captured in a 'main' div that contains every time out of 2 divs, from which the first one is an empty dummy. This empty dummy (code below) is the reason that Outlook (and Gmail as well) will show like 5 line breaks between the subreports. Is there a parameter (or other facility) that can disable this dummy DIV? Thanks in advance!Regards,GertPS: Div code:"

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Fixed the issue described in comment #4, subreports no longer generate empty rectangles (which result in HTML divs). Note though that rectangles are still created if the subreport is opaque, but that's not the case most of the time.

 

The changes are at http://sourceforge.net/p/jasperreports/code/ci/c4aff1c1a357ded09108aa48869936837fd4375e/

 

Regards,

Lucian

Nice! Thank you very much, that's great news!

 

Will probably be fixed in next release or is it already downloadable for use on the link to the library you provided?

 

Thanks again, have a great day!

 

Best regards,

Gert

 

The fix will be part of the next release. For the moment the only way to use it is to fetch the code and build it.

I remembered that there's a binary JR jar containing the fix publicly available. It can be downloaded from http://jaspersoft.artifactoryonline.com/jaspersoft/jr-ce-snapshots/net/sf/jasperreports/jasperreports/6.0.2-SNAPSHOT/, get the latest jar (the one from Jan 21st) if you want to test/preview the fix.

Changed Resolution from Open to Fixed

Changed Status from New to Resolved

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Hi,I think nowadays there are no longer issues with displaying HTML reports in Outlook as we moved back to table based output instead of divs and implemented certain options to embed images in the HTML with Base64 encoding.Thank you,Teodor