Hi all,
I'm having a problem trying to format a pdf report according to what the
business needs. I was able to create the pdf without any issues, with a
header/footer, "page X of Y", etc... However, I'm having trouble displaying
groups. For example, let's say I have the following, a "name" which has a
bunch of subgroups. I'm supressing the "name" value if the previous record has
the same name. However, if the records rollover to a new page, I want to
display the "name" again. I'm finding it hard to do this because I first
create the PdfPTable and then add it to a ColumnText which displays the data on
the pdf. Therefore, I don't know where the pagebreak will occur when creating
the PdfPTable:
Example of what I'm getting:
Header
name abc
def
ghi
etc...
----------------------------------
Footer Page 1 of 2
Header
jkl <--- want "name" to display again since it's a new page.
mno
etc...
-----------------------------
Footer Page 2 of 2
Example of what I need:
Header
name abc
def
ghi
etc...
----------------------------------
Footer Page 1 of 2
Header
name jkl <--- "name" is displayed since it's a new page
mno
etc...
----------------------------------
Footer Page 2 of 2
Below is what I use to display the table. In my example above, the table will
only have two columns and I want to suppress the first column if it's the same
as the previous row's first column ( I have no problem with this ) and I want
to display the first column if it's a new page ( Here's where I have the issue
):
ColumnText tableCt = new ColumnText(this.cb); //cb is a PdfContentByte
tableCt.addElement(table); //table is a PdfPTable
tableCt.setSimpleColumn( this.leftMargin, this.footerHeight, this.pageWidth -
this.rightMargin, this.headerHeight );
try{
int status = ColumnText.NO_MORE_COLUMN ;
while((status & ColumnText.NO_MORE_TEXT) == 0){
status = tableCt.go();
tableCt.setYLine( 399 );
doc.newPage();
}
} catch ( DocumentException de ){
}
Please let me anyone has done something similar and can point me in the right
direction.
Thanks in advance,
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