Printing error

[Simon]

Morning all

I'm currently having an issue with the Print PDF functionality and I was trying to identify whether this is a bug or how I can get around it.

I am trying to print a table using Ebase's Print PDF functionality. If one of the table fields contains so much text that its comprising row would occupy more than one page, the print fails and a less-than-helpful error message is generated:

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* Unexpected error occurred - see server log * 
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Is this a bug in Ebase? If not, can we allow the text-heavy row to spill over onto the next page? Alternatively, is there a way of detecting at run-time whether a table row contains too much text to fit on a page?

Thanks for your help
Simon

[Simon]

For info, I have rasied this as a problem log on the customer portal, ref 333277.

Cheers
Simon

[Hovik]

This is caused a known bug, which is:

Table cells do not expand dynamically in a PDF - Ebase gives null pointer exception errors, resulting in a runtime error:

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* Unexpected error occurred - see server log *
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There is no simple workaround and there are no plans to fix the bug in Version 3.4.

A normal textarea field solves the problem as it does expand into as many pages as required.

The technique we recommend:

Using a loop at table:
1. Store all the table cells you need to print in non-table fields (text or textarea as appropriate)
2. Create a PDF for each row, using the above fields
At the end of the loop, put all created PDF's together

We have written 2 custom resources to help with this. These are available from log number 332854 on the customer portal.

Please contact Ebase support for further details.