Hi
I need to be able to produce a report (it is actually a product technical specification) and it will contain text formatted as html.
The HTMLBox works great but does not span pages - most of the specifications though have more than a page worth of text.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to possible ways to work around this?
Thanks
Gary
Hi Gary,
If you cut the HTML document into smaller chunks (for example have each paragraph start a new chunk) and output each of these as a separate HTMLBox then it will appear as one document and a page break will appear whenever a chunk as a whole doesn't fit the page anymore. The potential whitespace at the bottom of a page will be smaller if the chunks are smaller. If the document data is stored in a 4GL variable (rather than using a url pointing to a file) then the splitting loop can be written in 4GL. As a start you could split at any P,BR, H1, H2,..,OL,TABLE,.. element. You can do this using the XML functions in case it is a XML document and otherwise use the string functions. Then the fragments are surrounded by "<HTML><BODY>" and shipped in a PRINT statement. If you have long tables or item lists then these may produce large gaps or the fragments may not fit on the page at all. In any case I will ask a request for enhancement to be filed for this.
Regards,
Alex
Hello,
The following request has been registered in our database for that:
#20535 : Having the possibility for HTMLBox to span pages.
Best regards,
Christine HEIM-REBIERE
Four J's Support Team