Tables spanning multiple pages?

[Paul]

When a table spans multiple pages is there a way to make them close themselves at the bottom? The majority of my data is without borders and it looks quite ugly to have the bottom border open when the table needs to span more than one page.

[Steve]

Hello Paul,

Check the following forum thread for more information on your inquiry: table missing bottom border.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Paul]

Thanks for the reply Steve,

While I would say your logic is sound if printing a table (only a table and nothing else on the report) and you wanted to tape the pages together in the end to create one very long table, I would have to disagree however that this is a good practice or that it is aesthetically pleasing especially in regards to invoices. As far as user confusion it would not be difficult to add a text box that said continued... and set the visibility property to on or off if needed. Do you think the ability to close the bottom border will be available in the future or is there anyway around this currently?

[Steve]

Hello Paul,

Data processing and paging are two separate processes and furthermore, each rendering extension has a different paging mechanism. So in short adding non existent borders as a stock feature or ability to just add a TextBox that says continued is not trivial and not in our short term plans.

Regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Paul]

Thanks again for the quick reply Steve,

I understand that this small detail is obviously not a huge priority, Do you have any recommendations of how I could maybe design my report differently as a short term solution?

[Steve]

Hi Paul,

The Interactive layout of the report viewer is the default report layout which users see and in it the Table should not be paged but displayed as a whole. So your users would see the aesthetically pleasing invoice you want. About the printing - we already explained our logic and if you have checked the forum we referred to, other reporting solutions handle this similarly. Note that if a table cell (TextBox item) contains more data than can fit on a single page, it would always be split and in this line of thoughts there is no universal way around this. If it fits to a single page however, you can set the KeepTogether property to true and it would always be rendered as a whole. This however (in our opinion) would create weird looking pages where the data finishes in the middle of the page and continues in next page.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team