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Bug 321204

Summary:

Cannot edit report in word doc format

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

srikanth Mising name <srikanthklkrn>

Component:

BIRT

Assignee:

Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>

Status:

VERIFIED INVALID

QA Contact:

Xiaodan Wang <xwang>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

bluesoldier

Version:

2.6.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
This is the report design where i cannot edit the doc report,,,	none
I have attached rpt design , Another issue with editing the report	none

Description srikanth Mising name

2010-07-29 06:34:50 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

I am generating a report in word doc format.. But I cannot edit the report...i.e,If i have table in My rpt design ,When I generate the report, I am not able to delete the column of the table in the report..

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Design an rpt with 5*5 table and give border to every cell.
2.fill each cell with dynamic text with data.
3.goto view report->View Report as DOC

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2010-07-30 02:10:12 EDT

I can not reproduce this issue in latest 2.6.1 build.

Could you please attach your report design for us to reproduce this issue?

Comment 2 srikanth Mising name

2010-07-30 03:51:43 EDT

Created attachment 175544 [details]
This is the report design where i cannot edit the doc report,,,

I have attached the rpt design which will reproduce the issue..

Comment 3 Xiaoying Gu

2010-07-30 05:06:17 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=175544) [details]
> This is the report design where i cannot edit the doc report,,,
> I have attached the rpt design which will reproduce the issue..

The table in this example has merged cells in the first row and last row.

You can not choose/delete coloumns in such table in word. It's the limitation of Microsoft word, not BIRT.

Comment 4 srikanth Mising name

2010-07-30 07:11:38 EDT

Created attachment 175556 [details]
I have attached rpt design , Another issue with editing the report

There is another issue in editing the word doc.. I have three tables, I am trying to move the second table a different page.. It fails to do this

Comment 5 Xiaoying Gu

2010-08-02 01:44:56 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=175556) [details]
> I have attached rpt design , Another issue with editing the report
> There is another issue in editing the word doc.. I have three tables, I am
> trying to move the second table a different page.. It fails to do this

BIRT will treat html text as table in doc. So the table 2 in you example report is actually a nested table. 

In word, you need to choose the outside table to delete, which is difficult to choose actually. You can try this with insert a nested table in Word. This is a word issue either, not BIRT.

You can choose all the rows of table 2 and delete the table by ctrl + x as a workaround.

Comment 6 Xiaodan Wang

2010-08-04 04:49:28 EDT

Set as Verified.