Hi,

I found the sample and followd the pattern, but create a PDF with header/title and grids is very fragile. I had to tweak all kinds of things from grid columns to PDF page parms to Report parms to get it to work.

It was not as easy as I would have like:

Create a header for every page - the header text would change for each page.

Create a footer with the company logo on every page

Create page number on every page

Export a grid and have it fit nicely on the page - the number of columns would vary in the grid as well as the data values

Problems:

1. I could not get the header or footer to be at the very top and bottom of the page (there was always about a 1 inch magin at the top and bottom of the page)

2. Page numbers worked

3. Fitting an image into a footer - guess and hope until you get it right.

4. The grid was a whole story in itself -

   The page size would change in the PDF depending on the grid columns

   The grid would only take up 1/2 the page (sometimes) - meaning that the header would come out, A text tile and then the grid, then bunch of white space, then the footer. The grid would not fill in the white space to the footer.

   The grid would sometimes run into the next page (I have 30 rows + 1 summary rows and either 10, 13 or 16 columns of mostly formatted numbers) and for some data if would have 27 grid rows on one page and the last 4 on the next.

4. Summary: I am scared to touch anything now since it works - but I had to create a different header for the Grid pages, remove the footer on the grid pages, set the page size to legal/landscape, play around with other properties, Try all different thing with the Initialize_Layout of the grid (performAutoSize...) and also BeginExport event do a bunch of things.

FEATURE REQUEST: Create a design-time Report Designer UI where you can put the Wingrid on it (Like Crystal or Visual Studio Report)

Hello,

If you want to remove the Margins than you should handle the PageMargin property of the desired section like:

            section.PageMargins.Top = 0
            section.PageMargins.Left = 0

This should help you to achieve what you are looking for.

About the Image in the footer you probably should handle the Images something like the following:

Dim section As ISection = report.AddSection()

  Dim footer As ISectionFooter = section.AddFooter()
  footer.AddImage(....)

In the AddImage method there are two overloads which might help you to position your Image.

I am not sure  how the report will handle the rows of the grid when their are "less" than the available space between the header and the footer but I will research it further and will let you know.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks Danko.

I tried setting the section.PageMargins and there was no effect - there was still the same amount of white space at the top of the page and left/right/bottom.

I even tried section.PageMargins.All = 0 and nothing changed.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,
Gerry

CODE SAMPLE BELOW

' Create a report

Report()

' Create the main Section and add 20 pixels of padding on each edge.

Infragistics.Documents.Report.Section.ISection = report.AddSection()

section1.PageMargins.Top = 0

section1.PageMargins.Left = 0

section1.PageMargins.All = 0

'SET THE HEADER

Infragistics.Documents.Report.Section.ISectionHeader = section1.AddHeader()

sectionHeader.Repeat =

False

'Header Text

Infragistics.Documents.Report.Text.IText = sectionHeader.AddText(0, 0)

, 14, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.Maroon)

sectionHeaderText.Style = headerStyle

sectionHeaderText.Paddings.All = 0

TextAlignment(Alignment.Center, Alignment.Top)

sectionHeaderText.Background =

Background(Brushes.LightGray)

sectionHeaderText.AddContent(

.PlanData.PlanName)

sectionHeaderText.AddLineBreak()

))

 e.Layout.Override.MinRowHeight = 5

        For Each row As UltraGridRow In e.Layout.Rows
            row.Height = 10
        Next

do you have the similar thing for ultrawebgridview   ??? 

Since there is no e.layout.override.manual in for net.advantage asp.net

Hello Gerry,

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions.

Thanks Danko,

I will give it a try.

Hello Gerry,

I am not sure that you could "autofit" the rows into the section.

One thing that you could try is to resize the rows in order to try to achieve what you are looking for.

In the BeginExport event you are able to access the copy of the real layout through the event arguments like e.Layout and try to modify the rows height. You could try to suggestion below :

 e.Layout.Override.MinRowHeight = 5

        For Each row As UltraGridRow In e.Layout.Rows
            row.Height = 10
        Next

Please let me know if you have any other question on this matter.

Thanks Danko - that worked.

My next problem is that the grid doesn't export to one page anymore since I made the column header a little higher (I added another line of text to some column headers so its height is bigger). It nows outputs to the PDF 32 rows on one page and 2 rows on the next.

How can I get the grid to fit within the secion on 1 page.

Thanks, Gerry