Gracefully trimming fields in BIRT

There are times when report requirements can put a report writer in a box. For example, a recent request came in with the following requirements:

  • Portrait orientation
  • No text wrapping
  • Include workorder.wonum, workorder.description, workorder.worktype, workorder.status, workorder.statusdate, sum(wplabor.regularhrs)

Oops. No text wrapping and the …

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