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Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1895]

Thu, 04 December 2008 11:55

gpatti
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In FAQ 109 you describe how screen column headings can be changed dynamically. Can the same type of functionality be reproduced for report column headings?

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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1896 is a reply to message #1895]

Thu, 04 December 2008 13:02

AJM
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The contents of the report structure file is read into $GLOBALS['report_structure'] at the start of the script, and this can be modified within any table class before it is processed. There are no purpose-built functions for this as yet.

Tony Marston
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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1897 is a reply to message #1895]

Thu, 04 December 2008 18:37

gpatti
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Can't get this to work. I'm trying to modify column headings within _cm_pre_output() for the class being printed by setting $GLOBALS['report_structure']['body']['fields'][n] but the values set in the report structure file are still being printed.

Could you provide some further pointers please?

Thanks,

Graham

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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1898 is a reply to message #1897]

Thu, 04 December 2008 19:07

AJM
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After looking at the code I see that the contents of $GLOBALS['report_structure'] is moved to $this->structure when the PDF class is instantiated.

Tony Marston
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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1899 is a reply to message #1895]

Fri, 05 December 2008 10:16

gpatti
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Still not getting this to work, Tony. Whatever I change in either $this->report_structure or $this->structure is not getting through to the output document.

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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1900 is a reply to message #1899]

Fri, 05 December 2008 13:44

AJM
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Try this update to version 1.42.0 which contains a new function called 'replaceReportHeadings($replace)' where $replace is an associative array. This in the format 'fieldname' => 'newlabel'. The function will examine the report structure file and where it finds 'fieldname' it will replace the existing label with 'newlabel'.

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Tony Marston
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[Updated on: Sat, 06 December 2008 05:25]

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Re: Dynamic Report Column Headings [message #1901 is a reply to message #1895]

Fri, 05 December 2008 18:44

gpatti
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Well it does work except for a small error on your part! Lines 3107 and 3108 in include.general.inc refer to $screen_structure instead of $report_structure. I've changed that in my copy and it works great.

Thank You

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