4 Replies Latest reply on Jan 22, 2008 3:06 PM by norman.richards

Creating Seam iText PDF: Linebreak in p:table cell

brachie Jan 17, 2008 8:58 AM

Hi,

in our project we are creating curriculum vitaes using Seam iText. For that we use the tables <p:table> in the template.

This is the problem:

<p:table>
...
<p:cell><p:text value="#{st.startdate}"><f:convertDateTime pattern="MM/yyyy" /></p:text> - <p:text value="#{st.enddate}"><f:convertDateTime pattern="MM/yyyy" /></p:text></p:cell>
...

Which gives the following output:

10/2002
-
12/2004

what we want is:

10/2002-12/2004

The problem is that the <p:text> inside of a table-cell results in a linebreak. But I have to use <p:text> because of the converter.

Is there any workaround, alternative or attribute which could help us? I already tried <p:cell noWrap="true"> but that did not help, still linebreaks :-(

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Alexander

1. Re: Creating Seam iText PDF: Linebreak in p:table cell

brachie Jan 21, 2008 4:09 PM (in response to brachie)
Hi,

no idea how to solve this problem?
I know that the problem is very special but I have no idea how to solve it.

Maybe writing an EL-function for converting the date is possible, so I could avoid a linebreak:

<p:text value="#{my:convertDateTime(st.startdate)}">

?

Regards,

Alexander
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2. Re: Creating Seam iText PDF: Linebreak in p:table cell

norman.richards Jan 21, 2008 7:51 PM (in response to brachie)
Put the text in a p:paragraph.

<p:cell> <p:paragraph> <p:text ... /> - <p:text ... /> </p:paragraph> </p:cell>
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3. Re: Creating Seam iText PDF: Linebreak in p:table cell

brachie Jan 22, 2008 3:14 AM (in response to brachie)
@Norman: Thanks for the reply, you saved my day! :-)
But I realized that something like:

<p:cell> <p:paragraph> <p:text ... /> - <p:text ... /> </p:paragraph> <p:text ... /> <p:text ... /> </p:cell>

Will only display the text in the two last <p:text ... /> tags, not the text in the paragraph.
If I remove the 2 last <p:text ... /> the paragraph content is displayed fine... strange?

Regards,

Alexander
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4. Re: Creating Seam iText PDF: Linebreak in p:table cell

norman.richards Jan 22, 2008 3:06 PM (in response to brachie)

I would recommend that all your text be wrapped in a paragraph in one way or another. So, if this is all one logical block of text, put the whole thing in a paragraph. Otherwise you get a bunch of iText chunks, which is either confusing iText or the Seam wrapper for it. If you open up a JIRA case, I can take a look.
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