Formatting Help - PCXML

[bluekot555]

Hi - I’ve been working with the render tools and noticed that it automatically removes extra spaces in strings which I don’t want removed (see field Identifier). I managed to preserve the spacing by switching to Expert Mode in the report text tool (see Identifier2) but now trying to figure out how to do the following for the data in Identifier2:

• Change the font style and size in the data from Arial 12 to Calibri 9
• Adjust the column width in the rendered output

I've attached a sample flow that maintains the spaces in the rendered output.

If anyone has experience customizing these settings using PCXML, I’d really appreciate your guidance or examples to format the output. Other suggestions are welcome too. Thanks!

[binuacs · Accepted solution]

@bluekot555 you can make the font changes in the report text tool itself

[OllieClarke · Accepted solution]

Hi @bluekot555, as @binuacs says you can format these in the report text tool. 
You also shouldn't need to do so in expert mode. When I used my report text in its normal mode, it retained the extra spaces.

If you did want to know what the pcxml would be, you can duplicate your report snippet in a formula tool and inspect the string it creates. For instance this is the span style which sets the text to be Calibri, size 16 and bold.

<span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;font-size:16.0pt;">

 

A final workaround if you want to still use the table tool, would be to replace your repeated spaces with non breaking spaces (which are rendered properly)



Hope that helps,

Ollie

[bluekot555]

Thanks so much to both of you for your solutions; they work as intended! Much appreciated! Also thanks for the pcxml, I have a lot to learn.