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I've struggle with this for some time and now I want to see about fixing it. I know that PDMLink tables do not print well. You are limited to the view window and output is highly dependent on the adjustments the user can make. This is a strange one that was reported to me. Here is the screen view of this BOM table, derived from the multilevel BOM report:
Here is how that looks in print preview if I try to PDF the page:
It erased the Ref Designator column. WYSINWYG for sure.
Anyone know what is going on here? Since this is a custom table I can edit column properties if need be.
How are you printing it? Is this a custom table?
The only thing that comes to mind is that Ref Designators is a part usage attribute, not a direct part attribute. So it's a different type of column than the others. Do you have a quantity column that prints successfully?
Still, very strange.
Just normal Control-P to PDF typically. I am looking into how the column definition is done and what might be different with this column. Yes, this is a custom table extended from the Multi-level BOM report with replacements. I have a custom Tree Builder. The only major difference I noted is that I did not specify setExactWidth(true) for this column like I did others however this column can get very large with a big reference designator string.
//ref designator
else if (colConfig.getId().equals("refDesignators"))
{
colConfig.setLabel("Ref Designators"); //12-4-2019: reducing to single line header
colConfig.setColumnWrapped(true);
colConfig.setWidth(200);
colConfig.setDataUtilityId("wrapString");
colConfig.setSortable(false);
}