Report 11g and Bullet List [message #585374] |
Fri, 24 May 2013 07:38 |
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neimad
Messages: 13 Registered: April 2013 Location: Canada
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Hi,
I'm coming here to get help about Report Builder.
I need to create bullet list on a report.
I use BBCode tag to define my bullet list inside a paragraph
my report are PDF Format with type CACHE
like here we use [|LIST] to define a list
on OTN Oracle Forum someone told me a soluce about html output, but i prefer to stay with PDF format.
thanks for your help.
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Re: Report 11g and Bullet List [message #585385 is a reply to message #585376] |
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:53 |
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neimad
Messages: 13 Registered: April 2013 Location: Canada
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Thanks for your reply. It's helping a lot.
is it possible to have space if the bullet list have more than one line?
Like :
* sdfjasklfjsaldfjaslfddas
sjdfkasjdflasfjdasklfjaslf
* sdfjsladfj
can we do that? i can add space like a tab key to have space before the DOT but i want to align text for not going back on another line.
thanks
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[Updated on: Fri, 24 May 2013 13:52] by Moderator Report message to a moderator
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Re: Report 11g and Bullet List [message #585404 is a reply to message #585402] |
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:14 |
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Littlefoot
Messages: 21823 Registered: June 2005 Location: Croatia, Europe
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"Bullets" I suggested just pretend to be bullets; I don't know whether you can apply such a formatting in Reports. Actually, maybe 11g supports something like that, but I don't use that version. As far as I can tell (for Reports 10g), even if you copy/paste formatted text (with bullets) from, say, MS Word into Reports, only the first line will be properly formatted - the rest will begin from the beginning of the line, i.e. no indentation.
What you could do is a function (just as you tried to). It would be kind of simpler if you used a non-proportional font (such as Courier New) because you could calculate number of letters you accept in every line. Proportional fonts are tricky because you can't tell how long will a line be (MWX take much more space than ijl). However, you might try it, test and adjust, based on what you see on the screen.
A function would split text you select into substrings (obviously, using the SUBSTR function). Here's an example (not too pretty, but I hope you'll get the idea):
SQL> create or replace function f_split (par_col in varchar2)
2 return varchar2
3 is
4 retval varchar2(1000);
5 begin
6 for i in 0 .. length(par_col) / 50 loop
7 retval := retval ||
8 case when i = 0 then '* '
9 else ' '
10 end ||
11 substr(par_col, 50 * i, 50) || ' '|| chr(10);
12 end loop;
13 return (retval);
14 end f_split;
15 /
Function created.
SQL> with test as
2 (select 1 id,
3 'Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction adventurecomedy film.' ||
4 ' It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg, and stars' col
5 from dual
6 union
7 select 2,
8 ' Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover'
9 from dual
10 union
11 select 3,
12 'The film tells the story of Marty McFly' col
13 from dual
14 )
15 select f_split(col)
16 from test
17 order by id;
F_SPLIT(COL)
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* Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fict
tion adventurecomedy film. It was directed by Robe
rt Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg, and sta
rs
* Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson a
and Crispin Glover
* The film tells the story of Marty McFly
SQL>
[Updated on: Fri, 24 May 2013 14:15] Report message to a moderator
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