Comments on: Making ColdFusion report fields stretch without messing everything up

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:21:18 +0000

Thinking outside of the box. outstanding!

By: Diego

Diego — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:15:28 +0000

That did work for me. thanks a lot!

By: Joe C

Joe C — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:35:46 +0000

this is a good technique, but one of the underlying problems with the “stretch with overflow” seems to be that it only takes into account the character length of the data, and not what the real estate that the data would end up consuming on the report.

My biggest problem is that it doesn’t recognize that it needs to add one line per CRLF found (plus the space required for the data between any CRLF’s). I really wish they’d fix this – most of our reports have some sort of free text field that will allow the end user to insert hard returns for clarity.

By: Mike Munhall

Mike Munhall — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:37:36 +0000

Good stuff here. I just ran into the same problem and used the same workaround. I wish I had run into this post a couple days ago.