BIRT 4.14 creates an indent for grids in footer & header

[reiner-killet]

BIRT 4.14 creates an indent for grids in footer & header

[reiner-killet]

I was first thinking about signing in but then read this in the signature of all of your e-mails:

Next time :-)

[reiner-killet]

Sorry for the inconvenience because of files names lost after commit. The above pictures should be in the sort order 3, 4, 1, 2.

[hvbtup]

I don't know the purpose of "Columns" and "ColumnSpacing". Maybe these are relicts of some commercial BIRT version, to support e.g. a landscape page with two columns for the content.
Does anyone know more about them?

Regarding MS Word output, keep in mind that MS Word changed its behavior in the past years.
I know that because all of a sudden reports looked differently and the only thinh I changed was the version of MS Word used to open the document. The emitter now declares the output as MS Word 2016, to prevent Word from opening the document in compatibility mode. Your issue might be related to that change. Maybe you should investigate the Git logs of the Word emitter.

[reiner-killet]

Enclosed please find a very simple template created in 4.14 which does not require a data source.
Let it run as DOCX. In Word 2016 you will see the bug.
CSO_RPT_TST_BRT_411.zip

[speckyspooky]

Short note to this topic, the effect of the indent of the header grid is given since version BIRT 4.9.
I agree with BIRT 4.8 the 2 grids have the same start indent but with 4.9 the header/footer got an additional indent.

[reiner-killet]

Do you take this as bug or as feature? Von: Thomas Gutmann ***@***.***> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Januar 2024 20:37 An: eclipse-birt/birt ***@***.***> Cc: Reiner Killet ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Betreff: Re: [eclipse-birt/birt] BIRT 4.14 creates an indent for grids in footer & header (Issue #1547) Short note to this topic, the effect of the indent of the header grid is given since version BIRT 4.10. I agree with BIRT 4.8 the 2 grids have the same start indent but with 4.10 the header/footer got an additional indent. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1547 (comment)> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWYBUATRRNZULLRTOOAO37TYPLDPDAVCNFSM6AAAAABCB43LKOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTSMBQHE4TQOJWGM> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread. <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AWYBUAQ3RMDMWMM45INPAZ3YPLDPDA5CNFSM6AAAAABCB43LKOWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNMJFZXG5LFINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTTRJ3YTG.gif> Message ID: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> >

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@reiner-killet

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#1547

[reiner-killet]

Hi @speckyspooky : This is weird: I'm not able to reproduce my own workaround of 3 days ago.
Can you imagine any workaround to get header and footer tables left-aligned?

[speckyspooky]

I started different debug sessions but cuurently I didn't find the cause of the indent.
The workaround would be really strange to wrap the content into a grid and work with margin (left hand & right hand side).

[speckyspooky]

I spent more time to debug the behavior and the padding of header-/footer-grids is based on an additional container-table around the grid. The topic is that BIRT create the according container table but without instruction of the margin himself.
Therefore a default margin will be used and this margin isn't zero (, it is a kind of MS Office standard value).

Long text, short story
The container-table must have a margin of zero.

I will create a PR for this topic.

[speckyspooky]

A fix is provided with PR #1552 (small screen example added into the communication messages)

[speckyspooky]

The issue is fixed with the above mentioned PR.