Hi all,
I'm hoping someone could tell me how to implement some custom logic around page breaks & borders in a telerik report.
Please see the attached "output screenshot.png". The issue should be obvious - I need to put a bottom border on the top page, and a bottom border on the middle page, at the point that the page has broken.
I wish to be able to tell from a condition (or property on the report) whether the current row in the DetailSection is the final one on any page so I can insert a horizontal line in places like after point 4.2 (top page in screenshot). Using a page footer is not suitable because of situations like after condition 4.5 (middle page in screenshot), where the subsequent item is long so the page breaks further up the page. Unless, there is a way to tell how much of the page has been cleared by the page break, so I would be able to extend the vertical bars down to the bottom?
At the moment, the vertical bar length in each row is bound to a method, which calculates it based on the length of the text, so it appears as one long continuous vertical bar.
Can anyone tell me how to implement this?
I'm hoping someone could tell me how to implement some custom logic around page breaks & borders in a telerik report.
Please see the attached "output screenshot.png". The issue should be obvious - I need to put a bottom border on the top page, and a bottom border on the middle page, at the point that the page has broken.
I wish to be able to tell from a condition (or property on the report) whether the current row in the DetailSection is the final one on any page so I can insert a horizontal line in places like after point 4.2 (top page in screenshot). Using a page footer is not suitable because of situations like after condition 4.5 (middle page in screenshot), where the subsequent item is long so the page breaks further up the page. Unless, there is a way to tell how much of the page has been cleared by the page break, so I would be able to extend the vertical bars down to the bottom?
At the moment, the vertical bar length in each row is bound to a method, which calculates it based on the length of the text, so it appears as one long continuous vertical bar.
Can anyone tell me how to implement this?
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Paul
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answered on 15 Aug 2013, 08:49 PM
Hi everyone,
Thought since it had been a couple of days and no one had replied, I'd let you know how I ended up solving the problem.
It was a so called "screw it, I'll cheat" solution; ended up just drawing the lines with a drawing tool, and setting them as the page background image. If anyone else wants to do something similar, that's what you should do.
Thought since it had been a couple of days and no one had replied, I'd let you know how I ended up solving the problem.
It was a so called "screw it, I'll cheat" solution; ended up just drawing the lines with a drawing tool, and setting them as the page background image. If anyone else wants to do something similar, that's what you should do.
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Hi Paul,
Background image is the right way to go since the vertical line(Shape item) in your original report definition overlaps with other items as far as I can see. Other approach is to use the items borders and add bindings to their Height properties with custom calculations, e.g. if it is the last item in the group and what is the available space. For an example take a look at the attached sample report definition.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Stef
Telerik
Background image is the right way to go since the vertical line(Shape item) in your original report definition overlaps with other items as far as I can see. Other approach is to use the items borders and add bindings to their Height properties with custom calculations, e.g. if it is the last item in the group and what is the available space. For an example take a look at the attached sample report definition.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Stef
Telerik
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