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Alessio Gaeta
Alessio Gaeta

Reputation: 5940

Jasper Reports: How to conditionally set the textbox style?

Is it possible in Jasper Reports to conditionally set a textbox style? If yes, how?

Please note that I'm aware of conditional styles, but I do not need a style which varies on a condition, but set the proper style using a different condition for each textbox (of course I could create a conditional style for each textbox, but that would be a real PITA...).

I'm using Jasper Reports 3.7.6 and the Jasper Studio Eclipse plugin.

Thanks

Use case example pseudocode:

bean1 {
    f1
    f2
}

bean2 {
    cond1
    cond2
}

<textbox1 style="(bean2.cond1 ? style1 : style2)">
    bean1.f1
</textbox1>
<textbox2 style="(bean2.cond2 ? style1 : style2)">
    bean1.f2
</textbox2>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1148

Answers (2)

Alessio Gaeta
Alessio Gaeta

Reputation: 5940

Answering myself: it turns out that it is not possible to set conditional style the way I needed. I ended up with duplicating each text fields (a copy for each style), then setting the visibility upon the condition. Boring and time consuming, but it works.

Upvotes: 0

Lisa
Lisa

Reputation: 1341

Unfortunately you can't define a generic style. See page 135 of the iReport Ultimate Guide: http://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation/ireport-ultimate-guide:

Please note that the conditions cannot be generic, for instance, you cannot set a condition like “if the number is positive” or “if the string is null .” You must be very specific, specifying, for example, that a particular value (field, parameter, variable or any expression involving them) must be positive
or null, and so on.

Upvotes: 1

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