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| <p class="head">BIRT Tutorial</p> |
| <p class="subhead">Using a Text Item</p> |
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| <h1>About Text Items</h1> |
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| The final step in our report is to create the actual header text. We want it |
| to look something like this: |
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| <center><font size="4" color=blue>Customer Listing</font> |
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| <i>For internal use only</i></center> |
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| We could build this up with two labels. But, we'll take this opportunity to |
| try out the Text element which allows us to use HTML formatting directly |
| within the text. |
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| <h1>Create a Text Item</h1> |
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| Let's create our text item. |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Drag a Text item from the palette and drop it into the center cell within |
| our grid. |
| <li>The Edit Text Item dialog appears. |
| <li>In the top combo box, choose HTML/Dynamic Text. The dialog displays a |
| variety of HTML tags we can insert.<li>Using the button next to Formatting, pull down the list and choose |
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| Layout. |
| <li>Click the <CENTER> tag to add it. |
| <li>From the list near the top of the dialog, insert a <FONT> element.<li> |
| In the attributes provided, set the size to 6 and the color to blue. Erase the |
| face attribute. The text |
| should now look like this: |
| <pre class="code-block"><CENTER> |
| <FONT size="6" color=blue> |
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| </FONT> |
| </CENTER></pre> |
| </li> |
| <li>Continue adding elements and typing to create the finished HTML: |
| <pre class="code-block"><CENTER> |
| <FONT size="6" color=blue> |
| Customer Listing |
| </FONT> |
| <BR> |
| <I>For internal use only</I> |
| </CENTER></pre> |
| <li>Click OK to save your changes. |
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| <div class="caution"><span class="caution-head">Release 1.0 Note:</span> |
| The layout editor displays the actual HTML. Later releases |
| may show the formatted text.</div> |
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| <h1>Dynamic Text</h1> |
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| While we won't use it in this tutorial, there is one other feature of text items |
| to note. Select the Dynamic Text category and you'll see a <value-of> tag. |
| This allows you to insert expressions directly into your HTML. For example, |
| to display an address line in US format, we could say: |
| <pre class="code-block"><value-of>row.city</value-of>, |
| <value-of>row.state</value-of> |
| <value-of format="@@@@@-@@@@">row.zip<value-of> |
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| The contents of the <value-of> tag can be any expression. Indeed, it can be |
| any JavaScript code. The optional format attribute lets you use any of BIRT's |
| format strings to format the data. |
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| <h1>Final Test</h1> |
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| We're now ready to give the report a final test. Click the Preview tab to see |
| the report with formatting applied. |
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