Birt Page Break (Grid + Group Header) - birt

I need to find the way to configure a real page Break for a grid:
When I set the pageBreak property for a grid now this have effect only to grid row and not count the group header row.
Anyone know if this is possible to set a property that takes into consideration both?
PS: I use birt report designer 4.3.1

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BIRT Report Designer - Table to Produce Rows in Multi Columns

I have a table, which is listing the name of benefits and it is only 1 column (just name of the benefit).
I'm wondering if there is any native function of BIRT Report Designer to produce rows not only vertically but also populate horizontally to 3-4 columns.
Something like below:
Benefits List
Benefit-1 Benefit-3 Benefit-5
Benefit-2 Benefit-4 Benefit-6
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Ok, I found a solution!
Under the following link there is a Eclipse Community Page Link recommendation about an additional computed column. Even though I don't have any computed column, the recommendation gave me an inspiration. Instead of creating an additional column, I used the rownum that is used generally to bind dataset parameter. For the table row, I created "visibility" condition that checks if the rownum + 1 is divided by 3. Depending on what is the result, it will be hidden or viewed:
Main Grid
It includes a grid with 2 rows and 3 columns. 1 row is merged to view the header. In each column of second row, the same table is placed with the same dataset.
Image Showing Main Structure
Select Table Row
Image Indicating Row Selection
Set the Visibility
Image Showing Details of Visibility Condition
The syntax basically means: "Do not show the row if the division result is not 1".
For the second column, you will need to compare with 2: (row.__rownum + 1) % 3 != 2 and the third column with 0: (row.__rownum + 1) % 3 != 0
Hope it'll be helpful for someone.
An more straightforward approach ist to use a List item instead of a Table item.
In the detail area of the List, create a Grid item of fixed width and height.
Put the content (e.g.) text into the grid's cells.
Important: Set the "display" property of the grid to "inline" instead of the default "block".
This way BIRT will put the grids from left to right until the line is full.
Then it will fill the next line (think of "display: inline" like adding words to a paragraph).

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.

Kendo ui - Spreadsheet - how to disable an entire row (not cell) based on a condition?

I have a kendo ui spreadsheet which I would like to display remote data and based on a value disable an entire row to prevent user form editing it rather than a cell. Is there any way todo this?? Similar like inline edit for a kendo grid but in this case I would like to edit only certain rows within the spreadsheet??
You could use a range and then disable the whole range. As presented here:
https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/disabled-cells but with rows rather then columns.

BIRT Reports column not spanding the whole row as desired

I am fairly new to BIRT reports.
In the BIRT reports designer I have added a 2nd row to my table which is binded to a data set. In this 2nd row I want 1 column from my data set to take up the whole row.
So what I did was to add the second row and merge all the columns in that row to form one column. I then added a text field with Dynamic HTML Text.
<VALUE-OF>row["ITEMDESCRIPTION"]</VALUE-OF>
The problem I have is that the data is not taking the whole row. It is being wrapped into only a small section of the row. I must be missing something. Can someone help me with this pls.
I'm attaching both the way the end report looks like and also the screenshot of the set up in the designer.
End Result
Designer (you can see all the rows merged in the second row of the table and in the properties i can see a colspan of 10 for that single column)
thanks
I've found out that the asnwer to this question is to make the field element inline style rather than block and also to check the No Wrapping check box for this field int he designer.

Detail template with locking feature in kendo grid

I tried using the frozen columns and detail template both at a time but both they are not supported at a time by kendo telerik grid I get this error every time when I try:
'Uncaught Error: Having both detail template and locked columns is not supported'.
Could you please look into this error. Would you give me an idea, how could I achieve both detail template and frozen columns together in kendo.
http://www.telerik.com/forums/grid-column-locking-with-detail-template
Shankar
As conflicting nature it's not possible in kendo ( or either grid . e.g. Excel sheet too )
http://kendoui-feedback.telerik.com/forums/127393-telerik-kendo-ui-feedback/suggestions/6263744-support-row-templates-with-frozen-columns
one probable solution is :
Create two grids side by side. ( left grid for frozen column , right grid for details columns ) you can use same dataSource for both the grid .
Make div size fixed so user cannot scroll on left grid .
hide those repeating columns in Right grid.
add one more extra expand button column in left grid.
on click of expand button of left grid, expand appropriate right side detail row.
i know this is not actual solution with kendo and lots of code work around, but using jquery, tricks you can at least achieve up to certain level.
=> if you have any solution then please share it here sankar. looks like this is old post .

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