Display HTML content inside a table cell - BIRT report designer - birt

I have a dataset in which one of the column has html tags. When I try to bind the data column with a cell inside a table, the data is being displayed as it is - I see the html tags like < br >,< br > in the cell. Is there a way I can get rid of the tags and display the data with proper formatting?

Yes.
But a data item does not work for this.
You'll have to use a text item, and inside the text item, reference the data as row["MY_COLUMN"] (you know, what I mean). It is important to switch the text item's Content Type from the default Plain to HTML.

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Dynamic text in master page of Birt report

Can dynamic text be entered into a header or footer of a master page?
I have placed dynamic text into a grid which then sits in the master page footer, this doesn't work and gives error:
ReportDesign (id = 1):
+ Invalid javascript expression: ReferenceError: "row" is not defined. (<inline>#1)
When I test the expression in the footer of the report layout itself this works.
Please see the expression below:
if( BirtComp.lessOrEqual( row["Aggregation"], "1,500.00" )){"user1.jpg"}
else if (BirtComp.greaterThan(row["Aggregation"], "1,500.00")){ "user2.jpg"}
The easiest way to use dynamic text in the master page is as follows:
Optional, but recommended: Create a dataset "MasterPage" which selects the dynamic data that you need.
Create a grid in the page footer (and/or header) of the master page.
Bind the grid to the dataset "MasterPage".
Use dynamic text items and data items inside the grid as you like.
Important:
The grid uses only the first row returned by your dataset.
Thus, it is best practice to create the dataset in such a way that it will return exactly one row.
This means that BIRT aggregation functions won't work here.
If your "MasterPage" dataset is JDBC based, you can of course use SQL aggregation functions like SUM, COUNT etc.
It is not possible to access "the current first record for the current page" this way: The "MasterPage" dataset returns one record for the whole report.

Nokogiri without DIV

I am trying to scrape information from an HTML table. There are multiple tables on the page. Before each table there is a paragraph with text. I want to key off of this text field ("CONSOLIDATED" text in the pastebin below) to identify the table since there are no DIV tags on the page and therefore no other way to uniquely identify the table. How would I do this? What XPath statement would I use? Here's a link to the HTML page: http://pastebin.com/HeapZvPV
Thanks!

evaluate HTML content from item in region Oracle APEX

In the database table I have a CLOB column that stores content with html markup. To display the content, I have a "Hidden" item called P4_DESCRIPTION and in the region that I want to display the value of the item, I use &P4_DESCRIPTION. .
Unfortunatelly it is not evaluating the HTML markup and displays the content as it is stored in the DB.
I also tried to change the P4_DESCRIPTION from "Hidden" to "Display Only" but I have the same problem. A workaround that I found is that if I have the P4_DESCRIPTION as "Display Only" and in the region I keep the &P4_DESCRIPTION. then the &P4_DESCRIPTION. will evaluate the HTML code. In this case I have hide with CSS the item and I will have the result I want. But I suppose it's a dirty way of doing it.
What is the clean way of displaying the content of the column that contains HTML markup? (btw to create the content of that column I used the rich text editor field)
Set the item to Display Only and set Escape special characters on it to No.

Add an icon instead of a text in a column

in JQGrid 3.8, is it possible to have an icon instead of text in a column ?
I don't think it's possible but if you have a trick, i'd be happy
There are many ways to add icons in the grid. First way is: the data which be placed in the column header (colNames) or inside of the cell data could be HTML data. So you can easy insert the <img> element in the grid. One more method is th use custom formatters. See here some demos. If the standard jQuery UI icons contain all the icons which you need I would recommend you to use there.

jqgrid save xml string inside hidden cell problem

I have 2 grids. in both of them i use loadonce:true .
In the first grid i have a cell with an onblur event which
opens a dialog with the second grid.
after i edit the second grid i want to save as xml it's content and
ascribe it to the row of the first grid (the row witch opened the dialog).
In the end i want to generate an xml from the first grid that will
include the xml I generated before in the second grid.
so what is the best way to implement this?
Thank's In Advance.
Depend on how exactly you implement the scenario which you describe you could has any data in the internal data parameter of jqGrid existing always if one use local datatype or loadonce:true in your case.
Direct accessing to the data parameter per jQuery("#grid_id").getGridParam('data') get your reference to the data array. The data array contain all data of the grid (not only the current displayed page) and the data are not yet placed in the <td> element. So the data are unmodified and could contain for example any XML fragments.
UPDATED: To make you easier to understand what I mean I made the small demo. If you double-click on a row you will see the XML data associated with the row.
The "note" column can be hidden. Because all hidden columns exist in grid as HTML markup I made it visible. You can see the difference what can be saved as grid internal data and what can be displayed (also as hidden data).
UPDATED 2: You can consider to use autoencode:true option in your grids.

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