Ok, I thought it was earlier than that. But as I said earlier, it will still do the same thing with the boarder and fill blocks in styles.xml. It is based on setCellStyleProperties() It will reduce the number of styles though vs. setCellStyleProperty().
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Douglas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 2:15 PM To: POI Users List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How do you code cell striping? I found a PropertyTemplate class. It is in the poi-3.16-beta1.jar. It is not in the 3.15 current download. On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Murphy, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > PropertyTemplate is new for 3.15. It is in package > org.apache.poi.ss.util > > Here are the javadocs: https://poi.apache.org/ > apidocs/index.html?org/apache/poi/ss/util/PropertyTemplate.html > > Both PropertyTemplate and setCellStyleProperties() will help in > reducing the number of styles generated. But neither will reduce the > number of fills or boarders that are defined. That issue is deeper in > the API. However, I have not seen nearly the number of boarders and > fills defined as I have styles from using setCellStyleProperty(). You > are right, the HashMap does not have all the CellStyle properties in > it, just the ones you are trying to change. It uses a putAll() behind > the scenes which does a merge with the existing cell's style. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Douglas [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 10:23 AM > To: POI Users List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: How do you code cell striping? > > Yeah that doesn't work. > I wrote a test program that generates a .xlsx file and the borders > section looks like this: > <borders > count="1"><border><left/><right/><top/><bottom/>< > diagonal/></border></borders> > > I change nothing except for adding this default border method: > BorderStyle DEFAULTBORDER = BorderStyle.HAIR; > Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<String, Object>(); > // border around a cell > properties.put(CellUtil.BORDER_TOP, DEFAULTBORDER); > properties.put(CellUtil.BORDER_BOTTOM, DEFAULTBORDER); > properties.put(CellUtil.BORDER_LEFT, DEFAULTBORDER); > properties.put(CellUtil.BORDER_RIGHT, DEFAULTBORDER); > // Give it a color (AUTOMATIC) > properties.put(CellUtil.TOP_BORDER_COLOR, > IndexedColors.AUTOMATIC.getIndex()); > properties.put(CellUtil.BOTTOM_BORDER_COLOR, > IndexedColors.AUTOMATIC.getIndex()); > properties.put(CellUtil.LEFT_BORDER_COLOR, > IndexedColors.AUTOMATIC.getIndex()); > properties.put(CellUtil.RIGHT_BORDER_COLOR, > IndexedColors.AUTOMATIC.getIndex()); > Then the call to that util under my cell: > r = curSheet.createRow(1); > c = r.createCell(0); > CellUtil.setCellStyleProperties(c, properties); > > Then the borders section looks like this: > <borders > count="9"><border><left/><right/><top/><bottom/>< > diagonal/></border><border><bottom > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><bottom > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><right > style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"/></border><border><left > style="hair"/><right style="hair"/><top style="hair"/><bottom > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><right > style="hair"/><top style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></left><right style="hair"/><top style="hair"/><bottom > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></left><right style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></right><top style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></left><right style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></right><top style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></top><bottom style="hair"><color > indexed="64"/></bottom></border></borders> > > That method example also creates a new HashMap, so it's not pulling > sheet defaults. The font on that cell is different from the other cells. > > The next method described on that page references a PropertyTemplate. > I Googled that and found org.apache.poi.ss.util.PropertyTemplate, > searched that and found POI 3.9. Whatever that was appears to be gone in POI > 3.15. > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > BTW, if you look at the quick guide > > https://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html#CellProperties > > you will find two methods of drawing borders without creating all > > those unused intermediate styles. > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Eric Douglas > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I wouldn't expect really fast response from a list like this. > > > My previous message was 6 days ago. > > > I didn't see an easy way to get alternate row styling with regular > > > styles (to color only even numbered rows, and keep only even > > > numbered rows > > colored > > > if the user sorts by a different column) but I did get the > > > conditional formatting working. The bad part is the order of > > > precedence. The application applies the individual cell colors > > > then the conditional format. I wanted cell colors in the > > > individual cell styles to override > > the > > > conditional. The only thing I've found that I think would work is > > coding a > > > VBA method into the conditional formatting to tell the > > > "ISEVEN(ROW())" to apply only if the cell does not already have > > > individual coloring, but the syntax for applying VBA sounds ugly. > > > > > > I did unzip some xlsx files and read through the schema and we can > > > easily see why some people send us really large files. Saving > > > spreadsheets from LibreOffice wants to write a lot of styles it > > > doesn't need. Some just > > code > > > duplicate styles and end up with hundreds or thousands, where I > > > got mine only writing unique so there's about 11. Some of the POI > > > API doesn't > > make > > > sense, as I tried to apply a thin border around every populated > > > cell and ended up with 9 border styles, with cell styles only > > > referencing > > > 3 of > > them. > > > ie: > > > > > > <borders count="9"><border><left style="hair"><color > > > auto="true"/></left><right style="hair"><color > > > auto="true"/></right><top style="hair"><color > > > auto="true"/></top><bottom style="hair"><color > > > auto="true"/></bottom><diagonal/></border><border><bottom > > > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><bottom > > > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><right > > > style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"/></border><border><left > > > style="hair"/><right style="hair"/><top style="hair"/><bottom > > > style="hair"/></border><border><left style="hair"/><right > > > style="hair"/><top style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"><color > > > indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left style="hair"><color > > > indexed="64"/></left><right style="hair"/><top > > > style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"><color > > > indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left > > > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></left><right > > > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></right><top > > > style="hair"/><bottom style="hair"><color > > > indexed="64"/></bottom></border><border><left style="hair"><color > > > indexed="64"/></left><right style="hair"><color > > indexed="64"/></right><top > > > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></top><bottom > > > style="hair"><color indexed="64"/></bottom></border></borders> > > > > > > <cellStyleXfs count="8"><xf numFmtId="0" fontId="0" fillId="0" > > > borderId="0"/><xf borderId="0" fillId="0" fontId="0" numFmtId="0" > > > xfId="1"/><xf borderId="0" fillId="0" fontId="0" numFmtId="0" > > xfId="2"/><xf > > > borderId="0" fillId="0" fontId="0" numFmtId="0" xfId="3"/><xf > > borderId="0" > > > fillId="0" fontId="0" numFmtId="0" xfId="4"/><xf borderId="0" > fillId="0" > > > fontId="0" numFmtId="0" xfId="5"/><xf borderId="0" fillId="0" > fontId="0" > > > numFmtId="0" xfId="6"/><xf borderId="0" fillId="0" fontId="0" > > numFmtId="0" > > > xfId="7"/></cellStyleXfs> > > > > > > <cellXfs count="8"><xf numFmtId="0" fontId="0" fillId="0" borderId="4" > > > xfId="0" applyFont="true" applyBorder="true"><alignment > > > horizontal="left"/></xf><xf xfId="1" borderId="8" fillId="5" fontId="0" > > > numFmtId="0" applyBorder="true" applyNumberFormat="true" > applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="left" textRotation="0" > > > vertical="bottom" wrapText="false"/><protection > > > locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="2" borderId="8" fillId="5" fontId="0" > numFmtId="0" > > applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="center" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="3" > > borderId="8" > > > fillId="3" fontId="0" numFmtId="0" applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="left" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="4" > > borderId="8" > > > fillId="2" fontId="0" numFmtId="164" applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="left" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="5" > > borderId="8" > > > fillId="3" fontId="0" numFmtId="165" applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="left" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="6" > > borderId="8" > > > fillId="3" fontId="0" numFmtId="165" applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="right" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf><xf xfId="7" > > borderId="8" > > > fillId="2" fontId="0" numFmtId="165" applyBorder="true" > > > applyNumberFormat="true" applyFill="true" > > > applyFont="true"><alignment horizontal="right" textRotation="0" > vertical="bottom" > > > wrapText="false"/><protection locked="true"/></xf></cellXfs> > > > > > > The conditional formatting ends up in sheet1.xml after the > > > sheetData, > > and I > > > coded an option to skip heading rows: > > > <conditionalFormatting sqref="A1:AMJ1048576"><cfRule type="expression" > > > dxfId="0" > > > priority="1"><formula>AND(ISEVEN(ROW()),ROW()>1)</formula></cfRule > > > >< > > > / > > > conditionalFormatting> > > > which of course links to dxf in the styles.xml <dxfs > > > count="1"><dxf><fill><patternFill patternType="solid"><bgColor > > > rgb="E4F7F7"/></patternFill></fill></dxf></dxfs> > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Javen O'Neal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I think there's a way to apply alternate row styling within > > > > regular > > > styles > > > > (not conditional formatting), but have never used POI to do this. > > Rather > > > > than tell you the wrong answer, I'd rather stay quiet to avoid > > > unnecessary > > > > confusion. Read through the OOXML schemas or create a file in > > > > Excel > > with > > > > alternate row styling, unzip the xlsx file, and read the XML to > > > > figure > > > out > > > > how POI needs to create the same file. > > > > > > > > > How many POI developers actively monitor this list? > > > > At least half a dozen. Nick is one of them. > > > > Some of us don't live in your timezone, so same-day responses > > > > are > > > unlikely. > > > > We use a minimum window of 72 hours whenever we vote on a release. > > > > > > > > Not all of us are experts at the feature you're needing help > > > > with, conditional formatting, which may be another reason for low > > > > response. > > > > > > > > We volunteer our time, working on POI between our day jobs and > > > > personal lives. Given the holiday season is close, I would > > > > expect developers to > > be > > > > particularly busy, finishing projects at work before the holiday > > closure > > > > and preparing for travel to relatives. > > > > > > > > Personally, I spend less time on POI when work at my day job > > > > gets > busy. > > > > This is to avoid coming down with a cold due to lack of sleep or > > > prolonged > > > > stress, or burning out. > > > > > > > > We appreciate your patience. > > > > > > > > On Dec 19, 2016 11:24, "Eric Douglas" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > How many POI developers actively monitor this list? I haven't > > > > gotten > > any > > > > answers to those questions. > > > > Meanwhile I have a new question. If I create a conditional > > > > formatting which is linked to the entire document and colors > > > > every other row, how > > > can > > > > I get individual colors in cell styles to override that, or how > > > > can I > > get > > > > the conditional formatting to only color cells that have no > > > > color in > > > their > > > > individual cell styles? > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Eric Douglas > > > > <[email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > So I took another stab at it. This seems to work, but I have > > > questions. > > > > > > > > > > import java.awt.Color; > > > > > import java.io.File; > > > > > import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; > > > > > > > > > > import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.ConditionalFormattingRule; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.FillPatternType; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.PatternFormatting; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.SheetConditionalFormatting; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellRangeAddress; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCell; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCellStyle; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFColor; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet; > > > > > import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook; > > > > > > > > > > public class TestExcel { > > > > > > > > > > public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { > > > > > XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(); > > > > > XSSFSheet curSheet = wb.createSheet("Sheet " + > > > > > (wb.getNumberOfSheets() + 1)); > > > > > XSSFCell c1 = curSheet.createRow(0).createCell(0); > > > > > c1.setCellValue(wb.getCreationHelper(). > > > > createRichTextString("No > > > > > color")); > > > > > XSSFCell c2 = curSheet.createRow(1).createCell(0); > > > > > c2.setCellValue(wb.getCreationHelper(). > > > > createRichTextString("Color > > > > > this cell")); > > > > > XSSFCell c3 = curSheet.createRow(2).createCell(0); > > > > > c3.setCellValue(wb.getCreationHelper(). > > > > createRichTextString("No > > > > > color")); > > > > > XSSFCell c4 = curSheet.createRow(3).createCell(0); > > > > > c4.setCellValue(wb.getCreationHelper(). > > > > createRichTextString("Color > > > > > this cell")); > > > > > // set one cell's color > > > > > final XSSFCellStyle style1 = wb.createCellStyle(); > > > > > style1.setFillForegroundColor(new XSSFColor(new > > > > > Color(123,124,125))); > > > > > style1.setFillPattern(FillPatternType.SOLID_FOREGROUND); > > > > > c4.setCellStyle(style1); > > > > > // set all cells' color, every other row > > > > > CellRangeAddress[] regions = > {CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A1: > > > > > AMJ1048576")}; > > > > > SheetConditionalFormatting sheetCF = curSheet. > > > > > getSheetConditionalFormatting(); > > > > > ConditionalFormattingRule rule1 = sheetCF. > > > > > createConditionalFormattingRule("ISEVEN(ROW())"); > > > > > PatternFormatting fill1 = > > > > > rule1.createPatternFormatting( > ); > > > > > final XSSFColor customColor = new XSSFColor(new > > > > > Color(228, > > > 247, > > > > > 247)); > > > > > fill1.setFillBackgroundColor(customColor); > > > > > fill1.setFillPattern(PatternFormatting.SOLID_ > FOREGROUND); > > > > > sheetCF.addConditionalFormatting(regions, rule1); > > > > > File fi = new File("output.xlsx"); > > > > > if (fi.exists()) { > > > > > fi.delete(); > > > > > } > > > > > FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(fi); > > > > > wb.write(output); > > > > > wb.close(); > > > > > output.flush(); > > > > > output.close(); > > > > > } > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > 1) Why does it change the background of one cell using > > > > > setFillForegroundColor, but to change the background of many > > > > > cells > > > with a > > > > > condition I have to call setFillBackgroundColor?? > > > > > 2) Why does this create a generic format? When I call > > > > > createPatternFormatting() it shows up in the LibreOffice Calc > > > > > Styles > > > and > > > > > Formatting section as ConditionalStyle_1. Can I name this style? > > > > > 3) Why does this look like a regular style in the Calc program > > > > > with > > > many > > > > > attributes I can set, but the API only allows me to set the > > > > > fill > > color? > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Nick Burch > > > > > <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Eric Douglas wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >>> I found one sample that shows how to code the condition > > > > >>> using org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.SheetConditionalFormatting. > > > > addConditionalFormatting() > > > > >>> to put in the formula that would color each cell if it's in > > > > >>> an even numbered row, but I'm having trouble figuring out > > > > >>> the API to apply > > > the > > > > >>> formula to every cell on the worksheet. > > > > >>> > > > > >> > > > > >> For every cell on a sheet, just give a cellrangeaddress that > > > > >> covers > > > the > > > > >> whole extent > > > > >> > > > > >> For every formula cell, you'd need to loop over all cells > > > > >> checking > > the > > > > >> cell type, then add just those > > > > >> > > > > >> Nick > > > > >> > > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------- > > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For > > > > >> additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
