[reportlab-users] Re: KeepTogether and splitting tables (John Pywtorak)

[Larry Bates]

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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:27:46 -0600
>From: Larry Bates <larry.bates at websafe.com>
>Subject: [reportlab-users] KeepTogether and splitting tables
>To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com
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>I have an application that has tables that look like the following:
>
>           Table Heading
>
>         Col1   Col2   Col3   Col4   Col5
>Row 1
>Row 2
>Row 3
>.
>.
>.
>Row n
>
>            Table Footer  
>
>Problem: How can I keep the table footer together with
>at least one (1) or the rows of the table on a page?  I
>don't mind the table splitting across pages (I repeat the
>heading and column headings properly), I just don't
>want the footer to be on a page by itself.  I wrapped
>the entire table/footer in a KeepTogther but that just
>moves the entire table to a new page which is not what
>I want.
>
>Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
>Regards,
>Larry Bates
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:02:09 -0800
>From: John Pywtorak <jpywtora at calpoly.edu>
>Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] KeepTogether and splitting tables
>To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
>	<reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
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>It would seem like you need to move the table footer out from the body 
>and make it a page footer.  Without having done this exactly I would 
>think using the platypus onPage handlers would do the trick for creating 
>your table footer.  However, if you are drawing borders say and want 
>your body table(s) to take up the entire page even if empty then I think 
>you may need to look at subclassing the Flowable Table, or creating your 
>own that can do that.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Larry Bates wrote:
>  
>
>>I have an application that has tables that look like the following:
>>
>>           Table Heading
>>
>>         Col1   Col2   Col3   Col4   Col5
>>Row 1
>>Row 2
>>Row 3
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>Row n
>>
>>            Table Footer  
>>
>>Problem: How can I keep the table footer together with
>>at least one (1) or the rows of the table on a page?  I
>>don't mind the table splitting across pages (I repeat the
>>heading and column headings properly), I just don't
>>want the footer to be on a page by itself.  I wrapped
>>the entire table/footer in a KeepTogther but that just
>>moves the entire table to a new page which is not what
>>I want.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Larry Bates
>>
>>
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>>
>  
>
Nope that won't work.  There could be several tables on a page that each
have
a footer.  I could also have a table that spans a page and the footer
should
immediately follow it. 

Basically what I want (and probably can't get) is something like:

KeepTogether(table( [(0, -2), (-1, -2)]), footer)

That would mean keep the footer and the last row of the table together. 

-Larry Bates