append table to report: different column width

[TEmember]

Hi,

Is there a way to set different column width when using the Append Table to Report VI? as I understand, the width is distributed evently for the Append Table to Report VI.

I have a table with 5 colunms and want  to set the width for each column differently for the report printout.

thanks for your helps

H. Pham

[mikeporter]

The funtionality exist for creating tables with different widths but it is not exposed in the existing Append Table to Report VI. You will need to create a copy of it and modify the code. Down inside it there is a property for setting the column width that is by default set to the same value for each column. You will need to provide a way for getting different column widths into it for each column.

Mike...

[Will_S. · Accepted solution]

Digging into the Append Table to Report VI by following the Column Width input, you will find Append Table to Report >> Append Text Table to Report VI >> tables.vi >>  Set Table Column Width VI. You will find an Invoke Node named SetColumnWidth. Just enter the column number and the respective width for each column.

[NickDngc]

Just a warning -- I don't think this solution is possible any longer with new versions of LabVIEW (at least the way it is written above). The vis listed above have been moved into a class and made private. After searching through the forums and trying to copy-then-modify the Standard instances of the hierarchy listed in the previous response, I almost succeeded in breaking the Report class in my installation of LabVIEW. Luckily I was able to quit without saving the changes to the Report library.

Check this thread for more detail; looks like this now requires some advanced object-oriented programming.

[mikeporter]

Yet another capability that LVOOP has destroyed...

Mike...