Report Generator - Prevent Table from Breaking onto Multiple Pages

Is there a way to automatically detect with the report generator when a table will not fit on page and insert a page break so that the table can start on the next page?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Since this only applies to docx reports, this can be done by defining a table style and then applying it when necessary.

Attached in the *.zip file is a word document with this custom table style.

[Madeline Oglesby]

Is there documentation where I can read how to define a table style and apply and use it?

Thanks.

[Juande Manjon]

This code example reproduces the table style formats in the attached Word document.

import mlreportgen.dom.*

document = Document('MyDoc','docx');
for i = 1:11
    append(document, Text(i));
end

table = Table(magic(16));
table.RowSep = 'solid';
table.ColSep = 'solid';
table.Border = 'double';
table.TableEntriesStyle = { KeepWithNext, KeepLinesTogether };

append(document, table);

close(document);
rptview(document.OutputPath);

[Madeline Oglesby]

I'm finding that even after including this line, the tables still split from one page to the next:

table.TableEntriesStyle = { KeepWithNext, KeepLinesTogether };

The top rows of my tables are getting split from the rest of the tables.

[Sean de Wolski]

Madeline, do you have a minimal working example?

[Madeline Oglesby]

I suspect that it may have something to do with the fact that the top left cell in my tables are 'empty'. I've recreated something similar below:

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
d = Document('Test','docx');

table_sample = {[],'Sample Table';
    '1','10%';
    '2','20%';
    '3','15%';
    '4','15%';
    '5','30%';
    '6','5%';
    '7','5%'};

for lx = 1:10

      text_sample = Text('Sample Title');
      append(d,text_sample);
      tableObj = Table(table_sample);
      tableObj.RowSep = 'solid';
      tableObj.ColSep = 'solid';
      tableObj.Border = 'double';
      tableObj.TableEntriesStyle = { KeepWithNext, KeepLinesTogether };
      append(d,tableObj);
  end
  close(d);
  rptview(d.OutputPath);

[Sean de Wolski]

The reason it's splitting isn't so much because it's empty as it is because [] creates an empty double array and the input should be a string.

Use '' instead.

table_sample = {'','Sample Table';
  '1','10%';
  '2','20%';
  '3','15%';
  '4','15%';
  '5','30%';
  '6','5%';
  '7','5%'};