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Bug 355464

Summary: nested groups are not rendered correctly
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Matteo Di Liberto Gasparin <mdiliberto>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Maggie Shen <lshen>
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: a.j.winkworth, bianca.dietz, bluesoldier, h.vonbargen, jlebiannic
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Matteo Di Liberto Gasparin CLA 2011-08-23 03:20:52 EDT
Created attachment 201969 [details]
report design showing the bug

Using multiple nested groups with the "drop" option I get an ugly "staircase effect". The attachment shows an example.
Looking at the produced html you can see that after the <td> element containing the first cell (which, by the way, spans the wrong number of rows) there are numCols - 1 <td> empty elements, and so on for the following cells.
Seems like the "drop" option is effectively ignored for the purpose of laying out the table
Comment 1 Adam Winkworth CLA 2012-05-14 21:30:49 EDT
*** Bug 379479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Adam Winkworth CLA 2012-05-14 21:39:29 EDT
More information in my closed duplicate report below. It seems to be effecting all emitters that I have tried.
Comment 3 Bianca D. CLA 2013-07-23 02:13:51 EDT
This bug is a big issue for me. The functionality BIRT provides with grouping data sets is exactly what I need, but I can't really use it, as long as the tables are messed up. It would be amazing if someone could look into it because I don't think that I'm able to fix this myself.