how to add title/caption to FormalTable ?

I want to add caption/title to the table. I am making tables using FormalTable but could not find the property to add caption to it. Please help

Answer 1

[Srijith Kasaragod]

Hi Srushti,

Please refer this answer which captures the same issue.

Regards.

[SRUSHTI KHATAU]

Thank you for replying. I have had seen that but BaseTable does not have properties like FormalTable.

Could you please show the example where we can add

table = mlreportgen.report.BaseTable(content)

content = mlreportgen.dom.FormalTable object

Please provide small example

[Srijith Kasaragod]

Base table provides an option to specify a numbered title to the table. So inorder to add a title to a Formal table, you can first create a Formal table and then create a Base table from it. The following piece of code shows an example:

import mlreportgen.dom.*
import mlreportgen.report.*

%Create a report
rpt = Report("mydoc","pdf");
open(rpt);

%Create a FormalTable
t = FormalTable({'Col1', 'Col2'}, {'entry11', 'entry12'; 'entry21', 'entry22'});
tableStyles = { ColSep("solid"), ...
                RowSep("solid"), ...
                Border("solid"), ...
                Width("4in")};
            
% Specify styles for the header first row
headerRow = t.Header.Children(1);
headerRow.Style = [headerRow.Style {Bold()}];

%Create BaseTable from FormalTable and add to report
chapter = Chapter();
chapter.Title = "Table example";
add(rpt,chapter);
table = BaseTable(t);
table.Title = "Formal table to Base table";
add(rpt,table);

%Close and view report
close(rpt);
rptview(rpt);

Hope this helps!

[SRUSHTI KHATAU]

Thank you so much.

[Randolph Leiser]

This answer works if you want to do minimal formatting, but BaseTable seems to overwrite or not fully interpret the settings of a Table or FormalTable. For example if we change the style lines of your table creation to:

t.TableEntriesStyle = { ColSep("none"), ...
                RowSep("none"), ...
                Border("none"), ...
                Width("1in")};

then executing the code yields a table with only the bottom and right border removed.

Similarly, trying dashed

t.TableEntriesStyle = { ColSep("dashed"), ...
                RowSep("dashed"), ...
                Border("dashed"), ...
                Width("1in")};

gives this table

I am not sure if there is a way to maintain the formatting of the original table better, as BaseTable does not have Border properties than can be modified.