[Solved] Truncated PDFs in repeater

[JoeBass]

Has anyone had the problem and found a solution for pdf's being truncated when attempting to render a repeater report?Ã,  Displays fine in html.Ã,  Thanks.

[bdybldr]

Joe,
I've seen this before.  What are you displaying in the repeater?

[JoeBass]

Hi bdybldr,  Using a table to display some fields from the master query and a list below it to show items from the detail.  The list is often snipped.

[bdybldr]

Do you mean that the list doesn't print on the same page or the list cell is cut off.  I don't really understand what you're seeing.  Why are you using a repeater instead of a list?  What size matrix is your repeater? (1X2, ect).  Do you want to dispaly the data in the repeater on more than one page?  Sorry for all the questions; I'm trying to understand the problem.

Thanks.

[JoeBass]

The list is cut off somewhere in the near the middle of a line. 

I'm using a 1X1 repeater so that I can employ a master-detail display:  Show the summary information at the start of each "new" list. 

I'm not concerned with page breaking at the moment.

Thanks for mulling it over!

[bdybldr]

Just a thought here...do you have your repeater or repeater cell set to a fixed height?  Is it possible to change the text size and or repeater cell height?  What does this do?  Is it possible to send xml using GO Sales?

Thanks.

[JoeBass]

Plain Jane repeater with no adjustments.  I think you have some good ideas for experimentation.  When I have a chance, I'll let you know what I find.

[bdybldr]

In my experience, Adobe doesn't like repeaters.  I would also try using a list instead and hide the column title.  So I couldn't be more help to you.

[JoeBass]

If anyone else has to deal with this, the best workaround I could find was to use a list with list headers to display summary data.  In order for the headers to scroll correctly when run as or converted to pdf, page breaks must be set for a field contained in the list header.  The drawback to this approach is that the list header is displayed on every page of the report.

I may be over-simplifying but, it seems to me that any report that renders as expected in html but behaves differently when running to another format, demonstrates a bug.  I used to be religious about my bug reports / enhancement requests with Cognos but, since I haven't heard a single fix response for the 16 I've logged, I don't bother anymore.  Rant off.