Need way for a text field to show as much of content as possible without word-break based truncation

Issue Description

In general, in a report, if the text string is longer than the size of a text field, the truncation by default is based on space or word boundary.

How does one force a hard truncation without any of the above considerations?

Resolution

Set this property globally in jasperreports.properties,

net.sf.jasperreports.text.truncate.at.char=true

Or, inside a report,

<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.text.truncate.at.char" value="true"/>

Ref. Case 00072707