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Bug 352067

Summary:	Word doc has unwanted hidden text (vanish xml elements)
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	T. Fischer <bugs.eclipse>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Yu Chen <yChen>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	3.7.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description T. Fischer

2011-07-14 06:22:20 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7.0

The generated Word document has tons of hidden text returns (paragraphs).
That is undesirable for customers who use hidden text on purpose.

Workaround: Delete all occurences of the following line from the XML output:
<w:pPr><w:rPr><w:vanish/></w:rPr></w:pPr>

Vanish Element (Hidden Text): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc547047.aspx

Applies to older BIRT versions, too.

BTW: Is there a way to produce Word hidden text with BIRT?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 T. Fischer

2011-07-14 06:38:41 EDT

Correction to the workaround: The following occurrences have to be deleted:
<w:p>
    <w:rPr>
        <w:vanish w:val="on"/>
    </w:rPr>
</w:p>
Attention: The indent varies.

Comment 2 T. Fischer

2011-07-17 02:49:47 EDT

2. correction: The workarounds do NOT work:

Comment 1 workaround was used on the XML-document saved with word and leaves visible returns instead of invisible ones.

Comment 2 workaround throws an error when opening the edited file with word:
"Ambiguous cell mapping encountered. <p> elements are required before every </tc>"
(German: Nicht eindeutige Zellenzuordnung wurde festgestellt. <p> Elemente sind vor jedem </tc> erforderlich.)
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NEW WORKAROUND: Place emty BIRT-labels on every position of hidden returns to produce visible returns instead. The seemingly required paragraphs seem always to be between two tables.

The reason is probably the same as described in Bug 204261 comment 3.

Comment 3 Yu Chen

2011-07-21 04:31:21 EDT

Fixed.

Comment 4 T. Fischer

2012-03-26 06:41:27 EDT

No hidden text found in the generated Word document with BIRT 3.7.2. Thank you!