Bug 290362 - Change wpml-export for List from word-table to plain text
Summary: Change wpml-export for List from word-table to plain text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 316840
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: BIRT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: Future   Edit
Assignee: Gang Liu CLA
QA Contact: Xiaoying Gu CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2009-09-24 03:43 EDT by Johannes Michler CLA
Modified: 2011-07-20 23:46 EDT (History)
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Description Johannes Michler CLA 2009-09-24 03:43:21 EDT 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.21 Safari/532.0
Build Identifier: I20090611-1540

When creating a report with multiple nested List, all these Lists get transformed into word-tables. This is quite ugly when one has to change the generated word-report lateron. The tables make it difficult to insert large data, add additional page-breaks and so on. 
I understand word-tables are the right concept when having a BIRT grid. But for Lists I'd prefer having converted them to regular word-plain-text. Eventually giving me the possibility to have a paragraph-break after each detail of the list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new report with a list
2. optionally nest another list in the details-block of the first list
3. export do word document
4. the word-document contains tables for the lists.
Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu CLA 2011-05-24 21:50:50 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 316840 ***
Comment 2 Johannes Michler CLA 2011-05-25 03:50:29 EDT 
I don't see why this is a duplicate of 316840

Could you please clarify? This bug is about that is has some negative side-effects when nesting lists since lists are stored as tables in word?!
Comment 3 Xiaoying Gu CLA 2011-05-30 02:31:31 EDT 
reopen for investigation
Comment 4 Yu Chen CLA 2011-07-20 23:46:14 EDT 
Marking it as a duplicate of 316840 is because they all concern the List implementation in DOC output.
BIRT doesn't support native List element. The List element is simulated with TABLE in BIRT layout engine. This will affect not only DOC output. If we are going to make any update on the list implementation, we will do it with 316840.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 316840 ***