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Hi all,
I have a small esthetic problem that might be a small bug in Oracle Reports. I'd be glad to know if you guys can reproduce this problem and let me know wheter I'm doing something wrong or not...
I want a field to have its width the same as I draw in the Report Editor. Ok, now you say : "HellOoo! Just make sure your horizontal elasticity in fixed and you should be good to go." Well, I can't let it fixed because my field is preceded by a field that is variable in width, and I want those two fields together to not excess a specific width. Picture this :
LogicalColumn1MaxWidth OtherColumn
Field1--|Field2------- Field3
Field1----|Field2----- Field3
Field1|Field2---- Field3
So, I've put Field1 and Field2 into a frame - which is of course contained in the repeating frame). If I let the H.Elasticity of Field2 to fixed, Field2 might not display beside Field1 when this one expands but under it (or not at all, depending on the value of the property 'Print Object On' of the frame). Well, this make some kind of sense : Field1, when expanding, pushes Field2 out of the bounds of the frame, so it get displayed elsewhere if permitted.
So, what I've done is to put the H.Elasticity of Field2 to variable. I've figured out that Field2 will contract when Field1 will expand. And it work, almost.
Here's the problem : when Field2's data is truncated (because it contains too much information to display inside its frame), there's always ONE character that display a little bit outside the frame. Seems to me like the algorithm that do the truncation misses a -1 somewhere in its calculation...
Whatever. Could someone take 3 minutes of its time to try this :
-In a repeating frame, create a small frame.
-Select a fill color for the frame
-In the frame, create a smaller field.
-Set the source of that field to contains some text (with enough lenghty data to normally exceed the width of the frame)
-Set the H.Elasticity of the field to 'variable'.
-Set the 'Print Object On' property for the field to 'All Pages'
-Select 'no fill' for the field
-Run the report.
Do you see that the field always display one character more than supposed? Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks to let me know,
Frederic
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Hi Sudha and thanks for your reply.
I'm working with Oracle Reports 6i. The properties I've found that were related with anchoring objects are 'Base Printing On' (values being 'Anchoring Object' or 'Enclosing Object') and 'Keep With Anchoring Object' (values being 'Yes' or 'No'). I've tried all four different possibilities with those values and none of them changed something to my problem. Maybe this has to do with our different version.
Has someone tried this under Report6i and got the same behavior as I described earlier?
I'm eager to know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a bug...
Thanks in advance (again)
Frederic :-)

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