Report Custom Vertical Table Question

Question

Hello Guys,
I am trying to display some data in a custom vertical table (for a report). The data that I have looks like this :
Customer number          Name               Product          Age
123               John Customer          Checking     50
456               Jane Customer          Savings          40
When I display it using a vertical table (or attribute value pairs) the data looks like:
Customer number: 123
Name : John Customer
Product: Bank Account
Age: 50
Customer number: 456
Name : Jane Customer
Product: Bank Account
Acct No: 40
But I want to display the data like this:
Customer number: 123 456
Name : John Customer Jane Customer
Product: Bank Account Bank Account
Age: 50 50
The option here is to change the data to dynamic columns rather than dynamic rows. I tried manipulating the templates but it would not do it. Any other suggestions?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Badri,
OK - this is what I did (there's no documentation as such, so I'll just give you the step-by-step guide here!):
1 - In your application, go to Shared Components then Templates
2 - Click the Create button
3 - Click the "Report" option
4 - Select "From Scratch" and click Next
5 - Enter a name for the new template (for example, "Vertical Report"), leave the Theme as your current theme, set Template Class to "Custom 1", tick the "Named Column (row template)" option and click Create
This creates a new blank report template - scroll down the list of templates to this new one and click on the name to edit it.
In there, you need to enter the following:
Row Template 1 setting:
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" class="t18Standard" style="border-collapse:collapse">
<tr><td class="t18Data">#1#</td></tr>
<tr><td class="t18Data">#2#</td></tr>
<tr><td class="t18Data">#3#</td></tr>
<tr><td class="t18Data">#4#</td></tr>
</table>
</td>NOTE: In my example report, I show four columns (EMPNO, ENAME, SAL, COMM) - these are refered to as #1#, #2#, #3# and #4# above (#1# means column number 1, #2# is column 2 and so on - but use the column numbers not the names in your template). If you have a different number of columns add in or remove lines of: <tr><td class="t18Data">#nn#</td></tr> (replacing nn with the column number)
Leave all other settings in the Row Templates section blank
Before Rows setting:
<table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
<td>
<table class="t18Standard" cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr><th class="t18ReportHeader">EMPNO</th></tr>
<tr><th class="t18ReportHeader">ENAME</th></tr>
<tr><th class="t18ReportHeader">SAL</th></tr>
<tr><th class="t18ReportHeader">COMM</th></tr>
</table>
</td>NOTE: You will need one TR tag for each of the column headings - I have four here (EMPNO, ENAME, SAL and COMM) - add or remove lines of <tr><th class="t18ReportHeader">COLUMNNAME</th></tr>
After Rows setting:
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
#PAGINATION#
</td>
</tr>
</table>Leave all settings in the Pagination section blank
NOTE: Any "class" name used above assumes that you are using Theme 18 (t18Standard is the standard report style class, for example) - you will have to update these to match your own theme
Click Apply Changes to save this
Now go back to your page and click on the "Report" link for your report region - this takes you to Report Attributes. Scroll down to the "Report Template" setting and change this to your new template. Click Apply Changes to save that.
When the page is rendered, a new table will be created for the report, the headings will be created within another table in the first TD on that table. All data lines are created as separate tables within new TD tags - this makes the output go across the page instead of down.
Andy