Any way to change the size of the columns in the tabular result set?

[Acy Forsythe]

I have 3 large text columns in a report and one of the columns sizes to about 40 characters wide, but the other two size to like 10 characters wide. Is there anyway that I can manually set the column widths in the result set?

[Timothy Anyona]

This is not currently possible.

[Acy Forsythe]

What does the application base the column width on, it almost seems to be random...

[Timothy Anyona]

There's nothing ART does to fix/change/set column widths. If you're specifically referring to the Data Table report format, the datatables library generates the table. I don't know what considerations it uses.

[Acy Forsythe]

Thanks Timothy, I'll take a look at that library then.

[Timothy Anyona]

In the just released 3.10 version, you should be able to set column widths for the DataTable report format by specifying column definitions in the options section e.g.

{
    "dtOptions": {
        "columnDefs" : [
            {
                "targets": 0,
                "width": "50px"
            },
            {
                "targets": 1,
                "width": "300px"
            },
            {
                "targets": [2,3],
                "width": "100px"
            }
        ]
    }
}

See https://sourceforge.net/p/art/wiki/Reports/#tabular-options

[Acy Forsythe]

Thanks Tim! I have not had an opportunity to upgrade since 3.8 so I just have it running in a test environment, but I'm excited to go straight to 3.10 instead and add these options!