Bug 236159

Summary: Support columnar report layout
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Gary Xue <xxue>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Wei Yan <wyan>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Tianli Zhang <tzhang>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: rkanguri, wenfeng.fwd, whe, wyan, zqian
Version: 2.3.0Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Gary Xue CLA 2008-06-06 21:36:22 EDT 
A columnar report is a type of layout with a fixed number of columns, with data flowing left to right and down. For example, a 3-column columnar report will flow like this:

COLUMN 1    COLUMN 2    COLUMN 3
----------------------------------
DataRow1    DataRow2    DataRow3
DataRow4    DataRow5    DataRow6
DataRow7    ...


I have attached PDF version of a sample report that demonstrates a typical use case. The outer table is grouped by Country, and the inner list shows customers and their phone numbers in column form. This type of report is currently doable in BIRT, but it requires the designer to jump through hoops to do it. We need a more elegant solution.

Please look into this enhancement in conjunction with BUG 133282. Perhaps there can be a unified solution for both.
Comment 1 Gary Xue CLA 2008-06-06 21:36:45 EDT 
Created attachment 104065 [details]
Sample report
Comment 2 Gary Xue CLA 2008-06-06 21:41:18 EDT 
Also see Bug 133218.
Comment 3 Wenfeng Li CLA 2009-05-26 20:43:33 EDT 
Do we need to add a new report item type to support this?
Comment 4 Wenfeng Li CLA 2009-05-26 20:46:32 EDT 
Attach report could be implmented using List + fix-width grid + in-line block optio of the frid.

Might want to add the block option to the layout editor to make this feature more visible.