Wrap text in Colbox for use with a Journal/text data and saving to a PDF

[shampton82]

What inspired this wish list request? I was working with @Jordan_Hiller on making a PDF of some text data as the current way I had to make the output required printing a datatable to a PDF printer which wasn't as robust as I wanted:

However, it looks like there is no way to easily get text to wrap in the Journal we output the datatable to using this JSL:

		wajrn = Data Table( "Data table" );
		wajrn << journal;
		jrn=Current Journal();

		jrn <<Set page setup(
			margins( .1, .1, .1, .1 ),
			scale( .6 ),
			portrait( 0 ),
			paper size( "Letter" ) 
		  );

		jrn <<Save PDF("G:\\Charts to print\text.pdf");

 Below is a snippet of the Journal output of the datatable and I can change the width of the column but not the rows and there is no way to set a wrap function.

So need to be able to wrap the Colbox and have the row size to fit the text.

There is a work around through JSL but it is more cumbersome as seen in this post:

https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-to-Set-Cell-Height-or-Text-Wrapping-in-a-Table-Box/td-p...

What is the improvement you would like to see? Ability to have colboxes wrap text and auto size the row width so all text is showing

Why is this idea important?  Sending out reports through JMP is becoming more important, especially with JMP live being able to run daily reporting activities.  Making sure that analysis that outputs text can be conveyed without losing text information allows users to stay in JMP vs having to save out to excel and build additional macros and reports as an additional step.

[Valerie_Nedbal]

@shampton82 Thank you for your wish. When importing a dataset to a Journal and save to pdf it's autosizing the columns but not wrapping like in xls, is that what you want? 

[shampton82]

Hey @Valerie_Nedbal ,

That is correct, I can set the columns to wrap and set their width but if the length of the string is to long it will not autosize the row height and thus I have to set the row height to the extreme of my expected text variation.  This make the tables much longer than they need to be and if I guessed incorrectly then I can't see all the text.

It would be great to be able to either set the column width and then autofit the row height or set the row height and autofit the column width.  This would the tables much more flexible and robust while still being efficient with space.