Table View column width + line breaker - Report PDF Writer

[bsartorelli]

Hello,

I am generating a PDF report with several tables coming from multiple streams.

My workflow is:
Report Template Creator (already set to A3 – Portrait) → Component (with all table views) → Report PDF Writer.

I am facing two issues:

1. Some columns (see last one) are not being displayed properly and are being “cut off”. Is it possible to wrap the header text or define the column width manually?

2. I would like to add a line break between the nodes (for example, between a text view and a table view) to create some empty space between them.

I tried using the String Format Manager, but it didn’t work.

Do you have any tips or suggestions? I find it quite difficult to work with the reporting tools.

[rfeigel]

Read this post from several years ago. I don’t think anything has changed so there’s no clean way to do what you want.

Formating of the Table View node for reporting purposes

I am not sure we speak about the same problem. The CSS works with the normal Table View (Javascript) node. However it does not seem to work for the standard / labs Table View node. The Javascript node (which accepts formatting) is not supported in the new reporting funcitionality (i.e. Report PDF writer). Therefore the tables (or text) on such reports will have very limited formatting possibilities.

Here’s a workflow that has a very crude workaround if you can live with the header being in the first data row. The String Format Manager node only changes the data display not the underlying data. It does not directly manage a header which is why I converted the headers to strings. The data is just random junk. As to your second issue you might try a Text View node with several blank lines between your data tables.
Table View w Header Wrap.knwf (373.0 KB)