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Oct 22, 2008 at 01:49 PM

Handling tabular data in Task Description / inserting a style

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Hello all,

I have a user decision task that is being sent with some data from a multiline table. I want the data to display in a tabular format; 4 fields per line; the second field is a text field. My problem is that the actual data in the fields, particularly in the second field, can vary in length, and the output does not maintain the spacing; so what comes out in the email is pretty ugly.

For example:

Header Line, desired spacing (based on field lengths defined in data structure) -

Field1  Field2 .................................................... Field3... Field4

Resulting data lines

0010  Some text 100 10000
0020  Some rather longer text 1 200
0030  Shorter text again 3 500

I have tried the various options for inserting a multiline container element, and the example result is the best I can come up with, and it's unacceptable. I think the answer would be to insert a style with tabs defined where I want them, but the task description editor does not allow me to either insert a style, or change the form.

Our system is ECC 6.0 (Netweaver 7.0).

I'm sure there must be an easy answer that I'm missing. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Margaret