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NateDawg
 Post subject: MigrDoc Table in a row?
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:36 am 
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Is it possible to add a table to a row or cell of another table? I can't seem to find a way to do it.

I have a table of records that are retrieved from a database and each record has a few child records that I need to display in line. the child records have a different number of columns and they are a different width. So I figured a table in a table was the best solution (like in Html code).

Is this possible?

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:52 am 
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This can be done and I did it a few months ago, but don't remember the trick.

Don't look for an AddTable method at the table cell. Use "new Table()" and the generic Add method. I don't recall if I added the table directly to the cell or if I added a paragraph to the cell and the table to the paragraph.

Related topic (uses a TextFrame for that purpose which is not generally needed to have nested tables)

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:57 pm 
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I've tried to add it to the cell and to a paragraph and I'm getting an error: Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Add' can be called with these arguments.

here is my code section:

Code:
For Each DTRow As DataRow In Students.Rows
  Dim tbl As New MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel.Tables.Table()
  tbl.Borders.Width = 0.75

  Column = tbl.AddColumn(MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel.Unit.FromInch(1.25))
  Column.Format.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Center

  Row = tbl.AddRow()
  Cell = Row.Cells(0)
  Cell.AddParagraph(i.ToString())

  Row = Table.AddRow()
  Cell = Row.Cells(0)
  Cell.MergeRight = 5
  Paragraph = Cell.AddParagraph()
  Paragraph.Add(tbl)
  i += 1
Next


The line that causes the error is "Paragraph.Add(tbl)" "tbl" is the name of the table I'm trying to insert in to "table" which is the main table. Each "tbl" will be about 4 or 5 rows, with different columns than the main table. My hope was that if a complete "tbl" did not fit on a page it would move to the next page. I can't figure out how to do that with just one table. Any suggestions?

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Thomas Hoevel
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:35 am 
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NateDawg wrote:
My hope was that if a complete "tbl" did not fit on a page it would move to the next page. I can't figure out how to do that with just one table. Any suggestions?


I don't recall how I managed to get nested tables when I tried it about two years ago ...

Today I tried it with a textframe in a cell:
Code:
        Cell cell = row1.Cells[0];
        TextFrame tf = cell.AddTextFrame();
        Table table2 = tf.AddTable();
        table2.Borders.Width = 1;
        table2.AddColumn();
        row = table2.AddRow();
        row.Cells[0].AddParagraph("*** Test ***");


This works and should do the trick (if the nested tables are small enough to fit on a page).

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DaKo
PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:57 am 
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I faced the same issue. Embedding the nested table within TextField doesn't work, because TextField doesn't grow with the table. There is no way to add Table directly to Cell, but it works, when you add it to Elements collection for Cell:
Code:
cell.Elements.Add(nestedTable);

And this is, how I got it to work. Hope it saves somebody a few hours of time.
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mdonatas
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2014 3:30 pm 
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DaKo wrote:
I faced the same issue. Embedding the nested table within TextField doesn't work, because TextField doesn't grow with the table. There is no way to add Table directly to Cell, but it works, when you add it to Elements collection for Cell:
Code:
cell.Elements.Add(nestedTable);

And this is, how I got it to work. Hope it saves somebody a few hours of time.

I've registered to this forum just to say THANK YOU!

I'll add a few keywords here so other googler would have easier time finding this:
Nested tables; Table overlap; Overlapping tables;
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