Justify text from Report Text Tool

[suwenchuan]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on a workflow that requires me to justify text output in the final report.

I am using the Report Text Tool, but it seems to only provide options for Align Left, Align Right, and Align Center.

Is there a method to justify my text, perhaps using XML or another workaround?

I have attached some dummy data and an example of the desired output for reference. Any help or pointers towards potential solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[FinnCharlton]

Hi @suwenchuan ,

It seems there is currently no way to do this - other users have tried xml hacking in the past with little success: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Justify-text-in-report-text-to...

The idea has been suggested to Alteryx in other posts, so hopefully the feature comes along soon

[ArnaldoSandoval]

Hi @suwenchuan 

It could be possible, internally the Report Text's text is just RTF (Rich Text Format) and these are the justification codes: RTF: Align Text - Left, Right, Centered and Justified you just to edit the Report Text's XML code to type in the justification command. I did not try printing, but the text is nicely justified on my screen.

hth

Arnaldo

[ArnaldoSandoval]

Hi @suwenchuan 

I did some tests with the justification command and it did not work 😮

[suwenchuan]

Hi @FinnCharlton and @ArnaldoSandoval, thanks for your input. Greatly appreciated! Hope we get this feature soon! 🤞

[caltang]

Surprising we still don't have that yet. Would be a killer add-on!

[caltang]

@suwenchuan a like brought me back to this topic. I gave it some more thought, could you integrate Python tool with this? 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24031011/python-docx-library-text-align

Not sure if it's something workable... since it involves reading the word docs generated to force align them I think.