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We are in the final testing phases of upgrading from 7118 -> 7503. We use Cognos as our reporting solution. We have found that the rich text long description type attributes, don't print out so well, they show the markup. We have discovered that what is stored is actually HTML, not really rich text. Cognos has a HTML item that you can embed in a report, but it only works when the output is also HTML, not when you run as a PDF, which is most common among our user base.
Anybody else have this issue and have any thoughts as to how to deal with it?
Does BIRT handle this any better?
Thanks!
Chris A Hanna, CTR
Application Programmer
Digital Management Inc.
US Coast Guard Operations Systems Center
christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil
(304)433-3234
BIRT handles the html (rich text) well in pdf, but not in excel.. BIRT has the dynamic text feature and so far not alot of complaints from users..
Shannon Sutton
Cell: (318) 334-8002
On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:47 AM, "Hanna, Christopher CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil> wrote:
> We are in the final testing phases of upgrading from 7118 -> 7503. We use Cognos as our reporting solution. We have found that the rich text long description type attributes, don't print out so well, they show the markup. We have discovered that what is stored is actually HTML, not really rich text. Cognos has a HTML item that you can embed in a report, but it only works when the output is also HTML, not when you run as a PDF, which is most common among our user base.
>
> Anybody else have this issue and have any thoughts as to how to deal with it?
>
> Does BIRT handle this any better?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris A Hanna, CTR
> Application Programmer
> Digital Management Inc.
> US Coast Guard Operations Systems Center
> christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil
> (304)433-3234
>
>
I use two controls
In my fetch I have the following
row["html"] = row["poltext"].search("</");
For the controls I have a data control
dynamic text
if(row["html"]>0) {
row["poltext"];
}
data control
if (dataSetRow["html"]==-1) {
dataSetRow["poltext"];
}
IBM is aware of the issue, don't know if there is a fix for it yet.
Wes Williams
http://www.weswilliams.net
http://www.williamsconnell.com
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BIRT handles the html (rich text) well in pdf, but not in excel.. BIRT has the dynamic text feature and so far not alot of complaints from users..
Shannon Sutton
Cell: (318) 334-8002
On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:47 AM, "Hanna, Christopher CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil> wrote:
> We are in the final testing phases of upgrading from 7118 -> 7503. We use Cognos as our reporting solution. We have found that the rich text long description type attributes, don't print out so well, they show the markup. We have discovered that what is stored is actually HTML, not really rich text. Cognos has a HTML item that you can embed in a report, but it only works when the output is also HTML, not when you run as a PDF, which is most common among our user base.
>
> Anybody else have this issue and have any thoughts as to how to deal with it?
>
> Does BIRT handle this any better?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris A Hanna, CTR
> Application Programmer
> Digital Management Inc.
> US Coast Guard Operations Systems Center
> christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil
> (304)433-3234
>
>