XSL Report Designer V2 Q&A

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Is it possible to switch the content of the display according to the condition? For instance, the content of A is displayed if applying to a certain condition, and the content of B is displayed if not applying. [No.2004032604]

Can the property of keep-together be set by choosing the range? [No.2004032605]

In Flow type, I can not put plural objects side-by-side. Why? [No.2004032606]

Can I use table object without displaying the repetition of data? [No.2004032607]

he object moves by a certain amount and I can not move it where I want to put it.　Why does this happen? [No.2004032608]

When I preview the layout file, body and page footer overlap even if they are arranged with enough interval on GUI. Why does the display of interval of body and page footer differ between the preview and the display of GUI? [No.2004032609]

Can Latin-1 Supplement character (character like U+00E4) be input? [No.2004032610]

Yen mark(\) is not displayed. [No.2004032611]

How can I put multiple xpaths or elements into one text field. For example, there is the flowing elements. <city> <state> <postal_code> And I want to put them into one field like the following. <city>, <state> <postal_code> [No.2004040501]

How can I access to the Rough Image Menu. It is being displayed in gray. [No.2004040601]

The justification is not effective when the text in the text object has one line. How should I do? [No.2004041301]

The "Background color" is set to the property of the text object, but the color is not displayed in the entire frame of text object when I try to preview it. How should I do? [No.2004060902]

Is it possible to apply different formatting properties to each text in one object? [No.2004063001]

How can I put a combination of fixed text and text/values from XML into one object? [No.2004063002]

Tips

Q.	Is it possible to switch the content of the display according to the condition? For instance, the content of A is displayed if applying to a certain condition, and the content of B is displayed if not applying. [No.2004032604]
A.	It is possible by the use of the expression of the built-in function. For instance, the following expression specifies; If the data is larger than 2001 years, the value of data/y2001 is displayed. If the data is 2001 years or less than 2001 years, the value of data/y2000 is displayed. if(yyyy>2001, XPath("data/y2001"), XPath("data/y2000"))

Q.	Can the property of keep-together be set by choosing the range? [No.2004032605]
A.	Because keep-together is meaningless for Fixed type and Labeltype, it can not be set for them. "keep-together" can be set only to the frame of Flow type whose "Place" property is "Flow". In Flow-type, make the frame that contains arbitrary objects, specify "Flow" for "Place" property, and specify "Yes" for "Keep together" property. That outputs "keep-together.within-page="always" in layout file.

Q.	In Flow type, I can not put plural objects side-by-side. Why? [No.2004032606]
A.	In Flow type, there are two types to place frame object, Fixed and Flow. When "Place" property of frame object is "Flow", if the length of the object expands, the length of other objects and frames expands according to that. However, it is not possible to arrange it as the object comes in succession horizontally.

Q.	Can I use table object without displaying the repetition of data? [No.2004032607]
A.	Yes. Although the table can usually be used to display data in the table by repeatedly processing the element, you can specify to treat the fixed table as a table only for the layout to arrange the arrangement of the character in length and breadth. In that case, please set "Yes" to the property of "Disable repeat".

Q.	he object moves by a certain amount and I can not move it where I want to put it.　Why does this happen? [No.2004032608]
A.	When "Enable grid" in the "Grid" of "View" menu is checked, making, moving and resizing of object with mouse is arranged along the grid line. The object moves by the unit of "Grid size".

Q.	When I preview the layout file, body and page footer overlap even if they are arranged with enough interval on GUI. Why does the display of interval of body and page footer differ between the preview and the display of GUI? [No.2004032609]
A.	Preview is using XSL Formatter. The size of the bottom margin becomes a limitation of the height of page footer. When the height of page footer is higher than that of the bottom margin, Formatter expands up about the bottom margin beyond the pale. On GUI of XSL Report Designer, the body and header/footer are displayed separatly because of the convenience of the edit. But in an actual print, header exists above the top margin's boundary and footer exists below the bottom margin's boundary. That causes the difference of display between the preview and the display of GUI

When I preview the layout file, body and page footer overlap even if they are arranged with enough interval on GUI. Why does the display of interval of body and page footer differ between the preview and the display of GUI? [No.2004032609]

Preview is using XSL Formatter. The size of the bottom margin becomes a limitation of the height of page footer. When the height of page footer is higher than that of the bottom margin, Formatter expands up about the bottom margin beyond the pale. On GUI of XSL Report Designer, the body and header/footer are displayed separatly because of the convenience of the edit. But in an actual print, header exists above the top margin's boundary and footer exists below the bottom margin's boundary. That causes the difference of display between the preview and the display of GUI

Q.	Can Latin-1 Supplement character (character like U+00E4) be input? [No.2004032610]
A.	Yes. Input of those character depends on the function of OS. For example, it is input by the figure of Alt + numeric pad on Windows2000 or later.

Q.	Yen mark(\) is not displayed. [No.2004032611]
A.	Please confirm whether to support Yen mark (\) with the font you use.

Q.	How can I put multiple xpaths or elements into one text field. For example, there is the flowing elements. `<city>` `<state>` `<postal_code>` And I want to put them into one field like the following. `<city>, <state> <postal_code>` [No.2004040501]
A.	It is possible by the use of the expression of the built-in function. For instance, in this case, you can set it with XPath as follows. XPath("city")+","+XPath("state")+XPath("postal_code")

Q.	How can I access to the Rough Image Menu. It is being displayed in gray. [No.2004040601]
A.	You can use Rough Image only for "page" object in "Filxed Type". Select "page" object from the Object tab in the Properties Pane, and then access to the Rough Image Menu.

Q.	The justification is not effective when the text in the text object has one line. How should I do? [No.2004041301]
A.	When text object has one line, it is considered to be the bottom line. Please not only specify "Justify" for "Horizontal alignment" in the properties of that object but also specify "Justify" for "Bottom line alignment".

Q.	The "Background color" is set to the property of the text object, but the color is not displayed in the entire frame of text object when I try to preview it. How should I do? [No.2004060902]
A.	Please specify "No" in "Auto grow" property of the text object when you want to reflect the background color in all the areas of the text object.

Q.	Is it possible to apply different formatting properties to each text in one object? [No.2004063001]
A.	XSL Report Designer does not support to put plural different formats (as property of text) into one (same) text-object.

Q.	How can I put a combination of fixed text and text/values from XML into one object? [No.2004063002]
A.	XSL Report Designer does not support of the output of "fo:inline/fo:inline-container". By using "XPath", it is possible to put the fixed text and the text/values from XML-Document together in one object. For example, in sample rxl file "label.rxl", "XPath" is used in the text object as "To:" + XPath("requester/name").