Problem inserting tabs in a multi-column layout
Hello everybody,
I've created a three-column document and I want to insert a right-tab at the right edge of each column. While this is easy in colums 1 and 3, there is no way that Pages will let me insert tabs in the central column. Clicking on the ruler produces no results, and in the inspector the space for entering a numeric value for the tabs is greyed out (i.e. non-editable).
If some of you has experienced any of this before, I'd be curious to know; and if you found a solution, then I'd truly appreciate it if you could share it.
Thank you in advance,
Rafael
Hi fruhulda,
Thank you so much for the quick reply and your willingness to help!
Right after posting the message I kept trying, and I've been able to insert the tab that I wanted; to be honest, I don't reckon how I did it, but I believe I deleted all other tabs.
Anyway, the issue still exists, as you can see in the screenshot below. The blocked text will not accept any more tabs via the inspector The +/- signs are inactive), and clicking on the ruler doesn't help either.
As I said, maybe the way around this problem is to delete all tabs before creating any new ones for this particular column, but that doesn't look like a very intuitive was of proceeding in Pages (which I use precisely because I hate Word's bloated features).
Again, than you very much for your interest. Best wishes,
R.
Original Pages file here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sv4vbimuz4jorpg
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Example C: I've inserted a table into a textbox and and then used different tabs options on the columns; notice how the decimal tab is working like it should in this case? In order to insert a tab in a table you need to place your curser right in front of the number and then right-click your mouse, choose Insert special character > Other > Tab. You can also choose to make the row and column stroke invisible in the table Table options if need be, which will make it look exactly like a normal textbox.
This won't work with fonts like Dosis as it's not suitable for tabular work where you want figures to line up vertically like Spier said, so you need to choose a font like Minion Pro or something similar to it.
I'm not sure if that solves your problem. If not then please attach a picture of the issue you're having and I'll try my best to help you. -
Text query using a Multi Column datastore index slow
I have created a text index using multi column datastore preference. I have specified two clob columns in my preference. Searching on this new index works, but it is slower than I expected.
I have done the following comparison:
My original two clob columns are: DocumentBody and DocumentFields. I have built an individual text index on each column. My new column with Multi Column index is DocumentBodyAndFields;
I did two queries:
1. search 'dog' on DocumentBody UNION search 'dog' on DocumentFields;
2. search 'dog' on DocumentBodyAndFields;
I would think the second search should be faster than the first one because it is a single query. But this is not the case. The second query is consistently slower than the first query by about 10-20%.
Things are getting much worse when I search on preceding wildcards. If I search '%job', the multi column index is twice as slow as the first query! I am very confused by this result. Is this a bug?I am unable to reproduce the performance problem. In my tests, the search that uses the multicolumn_datastore performs better, as demonstrated below. Can you provide a similar test case that shows the table structure, datastore, index creations, and explain plan?
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE TABLE your_tab
2 (DocumentId NUMBER,
3 DocumentBody CLOB,
4 DocumentFields CLOB,
5 DocumentBodyAndFields VARCHAR2 (1))
6 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> INSERT ALL
2 INTO your_tab VALUES (-1, 'adog', 'bdog', NULL)
3 INTO your_tab VALUES (-2, 'adog', 'whatever', NULL)
4 INTO your_tab VALUES (-3, 'whatever', 'bdog', NULL)
5 SELECT * FROM DUAL
6 /
3 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> INSERT INTO your_tab
2 SELECT object_id, object_name, object_name, NULL
3 FROM all_objects
4 /
69063 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> BEGIN
2 CTX_DDL.CREATE_PREFERENCE
3 ('your_datastore', 'MULTI_COLUMN_DATASTORE');
4 CTX_DDL.SET_ATTRIBUTE
5 ('your_datastore', 'COLUMNS', 'DocumentBody, DocumentFields');
6 END;
7 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE INDEX your_idx1 ON your_tab (DocumentBody)
2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE INDEX your_idx2 ON your_tab (DocumentFields)
2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE INDEX your_idx3 ON your_tab (DocumentBodyAndFields)
2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 PARAMETERS ('DATASTORE your_datastore')
4 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS (USER, 'YOUR_TAB')
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SET TIMING ON
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SET AUTOTRACE ON EXPLAIN
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT DocumentId FROM your_tab
2 WHERE CONTAINS (DocumentBody, '%dog') > 0
3 UNION
4 SELECT DocumentId FROM your_tab
5 WHERE CONTAINS (DocumentFields, '%dog') > 0
6 /
DOCUMENTID
-3
-2
-1
Elapsed: 00:00:00.65
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 4118340734
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 4 | 576 | 2 (100)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | SORT UNIQUE | | 4 | 576 | 2 (100)| 00:00:01 |
| 2 | UNION-ALL | | | | | |
| 3 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| YOUR_TAB | 2 | 288 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 | DOMAIN INDEX | YOUR_IDX1 | | | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 5 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| YOUR_TAB | 2 | 288 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 | DOMAIN INDEX | YOUR_IDX2 | | | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
4 - access("CTXSYS"."CONTAINS"("DOCUMENTBODY",'%dog')>0)
6 - access("CTXSYS"."CONTAINS"("DOCUMENTFIELDS",'%dog')>0)
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT DocumentId FROM your_tab
2 WHERE CONTAINS (DocumentBodyAndFields, '%dog') > 0
3 /
DOCUMENTID
-1
-2
-3
Elapsed: 00:00:00.28
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 65113709
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 4 | 76 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| YOUR_TAB | 4 | 76 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 2 | DOMAIN INDEX | YOUR_IDX3 | | | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
2 - access("CTXSYS"."CONTAINS"("DOCUMENTBODYANDFIELDS",'%dog')>0)
SCOTT@orcl_11g> -
Expanding text fields side-by-side in a 2 column layout
Hi,
I've been trying to create a form that is a 2-column layout. This form contains expanding text fields that are side-by-side with additional form elements underneath. I managed to get the expandable fields to work, however, if the user writes too much in the text field in the left-hand column and it wraps onto a second page, the text field in the right-hand gets pushed to the second page. I am wondering if someone has experience with this and could help me figure out how to make sure the text field in the right-hand column stays in place as the text field in the left-hand column expands onto 2 pages.
I've tried to wrap each text-field in their own subform that stays fixed, but that seemed to cause the field to expand over the elements below it.
Take care,
CarolynLuke23ae wrote:
for my bachelor-thesis I'm trying to create a 2 column layout in pages. The left column should contain all contents, the right column should only contain notes and additional information supporting the 'main' column. So the right column only contains a little text every now and then. Using the Layout Inspector and setting up 2 columns fills the right column automatically withe the contents overflowing the left column. What I'm hoping to archive is to create a 2 column layout leaving the right column blank, allowing me to insert Text-fields (unless there's a better way) wherever I need to add an annotation.
Hi Lukas,
Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Pages '09 forum.
Since you want the text to flow from page to page in the left column, it would appear best to use a single column for the main text, and to limit the width of that column using the right margin stop.
That leaves the right half of the page open for a series of text boxes (or shapes, as shown) to contain the notes and additional information.
I would start with a single text box or shape, resize it to the width you want, then duplicate that one each time you need a new box. That way all your text blocks have a common width to begin with, and if you take care to use only the handle at the center of the bottom edge to resize them, you will not disturb that width setting.
As noted earlier, the floating objects will not automatically travel with the text they apply to if editing causes that text to move.
Regards,
Barry -
How can I set up a 2 column layout in LiveCycle?
Hi,
I'm new to working with LiveCycle Designer. I'm using version 10.4, the OEM version bundled with SAP. Aside from being quite buggy, the capabilities seem pretty similar to LiveCycle Designer ES4, which I downloaded in a trial version. All of which is to say that this is a newbie question.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to set up a 2-column layout.
On my master page, I have two content areas.
When I create a new page, I am able to drag fields into the first content area I created, but not into the second content area.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
JanetHi.
I am not a new LiveCycle Forms designer. I am using Workbench ES2 (9.0.0.2.20121123.884160). I have run into a new design problem related to a two column page. The business analytsts have designed the form in Word, where columns work great. I have tried two subforms within the page. The problem with that is when the right column subform overflows, it overflows to the left column (as the left column has not overflowed), or when the left column overflows (whether or not the right column overflows) the right column begins on the left column's overflowed page.
I have tried building a page with two side-by-side content areas in the Master Pages, including setting overflow parameters for each subform in the Design View, also with similar problems.
I have tried using a table with no header and 1 row. That one is interesting. When only one cell overflows to another page, it works correctly. When both columns overflow, the first text box in the subform in each cell is displayed at the top of the page and the remaining content of both cells overflow to the next page, leaving a nearly blank page containing only the one-line text label in each of the two columns.
Is there some nearly hidden setting I am missing? Is this possible within LiveCycle Designer Forms?
Thanks for your attention to this request.
Frank -
Is it possible to havedrop down lists in cells of a Multi Column List box(not Table)?
I was using a muticolumn listbox(not table,for table i have example code,and problem is that i was not getting active cell position for Multi column listbox) with 5 columns.In third column,i want to generate a ring control,generate in the sense,whenever user clicks on any cell of third column of multicolumn listbox(not table),the ring control should pop up.The thing is that i need to use only one ring control and whenever user clicks on any cell of a third column,this ring control should pop up.How can i achieve this,anyone please help me,
Regards,
Naresh.NHi, Naresh,
For starting point you can read this: Table with Drop Down Items
Andrey.
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