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Most of the rich text formatting works great - italics, bold, different sizes, and line breaks. However, I'm having issues with some of the reports where I am using the View HTML Source icon in long descriptions. The best example is ordered lists that I have created in Job Plan Task long descriptions for printing on paper work orders using the ol tag.
ol type="A" start="3" li List Item 1 /li
li List Item 2 /li
/ol
The preceeding code (with the <> tags added) should give a list that looks like the following:
C. List Item 1
D. List Item 2
When I press the View HTML code icon to go back to the rich text window, the list displays correctly.
I'm using a PM to generate a work order. With the selected work order displayed in the Work Order tracking application, I Select Value Run Reports, select my custom report, and Submit. The report displays the ordered list correctly again in the BIRT Report Viewer tab. However, when I press the Print Report icon and Select PDF, the work order prints with the list displayed as follows:
1. List Item 1
2. List Item 2
It appears that when the report is rendered as PDF, it ignores the ol type and start tags. Because of where it doesn't work, it appears that BIRT is not sending the correct tags to PDF or that the version of Adobe that BIRT is using doesn't support these tags.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
I have not ran into this issue but i am having other issues with reporting and Rich Text.. not sure how much you have researched but when i pull data using a sql query builder such as SSMS(sql server management studio) i am seeing html tags in my data. Also when a user starts another line in a long description box it throws the data into its own cell in excel when the reprot is exported.. To me this rich text in 7.5 is more of a headache than its worth.. Any tips you could give would be great..
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" <mdurward@...> wrote:
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> Most of the rich text formatting works great - italics, bold, different sizes, and line breaks. However, I'm having issues with some of the reports where I am using the View HTML Source icon in long descriptions. The best example is ordered lists that I have created in Job Plan Task long descriptions for printing on paper work orders using the ol tag.
>
> ol type="A" start="3" li List Item 1 /li
> li List Item 2 /li
> /ol
>
> The preceeding code (with the <> tags added) should give a list that looks like the following:
>
> C. List Item 1
> D. List Item 2
>
> When I press the View HTML code icon to go back to the rich text window, the list displays correctly.
>
> I'm using a PM to generate a work order. With the selected work order displayed in the Work Order tracking application, I Select Value Run Reports, select my custom report, and Submit. The report displays the ordered list correctly again in the BIRT Report Viewer tab. However, when I press the Print Report icon and Select PDF, the work order prints with the list displayed as follows:
>
> 1. List Item 1
> 2. List Item 2
>
> It appears that when the report is rendered as PDF, it ignores the ol type and start tags. Because of where it doesn't work, it appears that BIRT is not sending the correct tags to PDF or that the version of Adobe that BIRT is using doesn't support these tags.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>