Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Mark Murphy]

So you should start with the un-sorted spreadsheet, make a copy, then sort
and save, then compare the two. You could also make an unsorted version
manually with Excel, save a copy, sort it, and then compare all four to see
how things got out of whack.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Dagnon, William 
wrote:

> Excel -> select all rows -> sort -> select 2nd column, ascending
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RE: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Dagnon, William]

Excel -> select all rows -> sort -> select 2nd column, ascending

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RE: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Murphy, Mark]

How did you sort the rows?

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As a follow-on: I created a cell style with a bottom and right border plus a 
background, then applied it to selective rows.  It looks good when I generate 
the file.

If I sort the rows, the background color remains for the content rows - but the 
border style randomly disappears.  In fact the last 2 columns only have content 
for rows with this style (w borders), but after sorting most of those columns 
just lose their borders: 7 rows keep borders, 4 lose the last 2 columns' 
borders, 14 lose all borders after the sort.  Total 163 content rows.

The border dialog within Excel shows this isn't just a visual artifact: missing 
borders are no longer set on those content rows.

The rows which keep their borders after the sort doesn't correlate with the 
original position of rows with borders.

I don't know if this is an Excel-ism or how much POI affects it.

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RE: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Dagnon, William]

As a follow-on: I created a cell style with a bottom and right border plus a 
background, then applied it to selective rows.  It looks good when I generate 
the file.

If I sort the rows, the background color remains for the content rows - but the 
border style randomly disappears.  In fact the last 2 columns only have content 
for rows with this style (w borders), but after sorting most of those columns 
just lose their borders: 7 rows keep borders, 4 lose the last 2 columns' 
borders, 14 lose all borders after the sort.  Total 163 content rows.

The border dialog within Excel shows this isn't just a visual artifact: missing 
borders are no longer set on those content rows.

The rows which keep their borders after the sort doesn't correlate with the 
original position of rows with borders.

I don't know if this is an Excel-ism or how much POI affects it.

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Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Mark Murphy]

The Cell Style overrides the Row Style. When you are setting a style in
POI, no new styles are created. The style being set is used as is. Be
careful of changing your style after you have used it. The change will
affect every cell that the style has been applied to. Instead I manually
create all the styles I will need, and apply the appropriate style to the
cell. This seems a little brute force, but performs significantly better.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Dagnon, William 
wrote:

> Perfect, thank you for the explanation and details - it worked!
>
> There is still the oddity about:
> > row.setRowStyle(codeFill)
> Only affecting cells AFTER the last one I created in the row.  I've been
> using a limited work-around.
>
> Lastly: are row and cell styles ever combined/aggregated as they would be
> in Excel? Eg. if I set a row style with a background and a cell style with
> a border, will the cell have the background and the border, or do I need to
> specify the cell's style with the background as well for it to not get
> overwritten depending on what order I set them?
>
> Thanks!
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RE: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Dagnon, William]

Perfect, thank you for the explanation and details - it worked!

There is still the oddity about:
> row.setRowStyle(codeFill)
Only affecting cells AFTER the last one I created in the row.  I've been using 
a limited work-around.

Lastly: are row and cell styles ever combined/aggregated as they would be in 
Excel? Eg. if I set a row style with a background and a cell style with a 
border, will the cell have the background and the border, or do I need to 
specify the cell's style with the background as well for it to not get 
overwritten depending on what order I set them?

Thanks!

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Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Mark Murphy]

Ah yes, Fills. This is a bit tricky, but there are really three color
levels in a cell. These are the Color (Font color), Foreground color (Fill
color), Background color (Fill color). The Fill provides what we normally
call the cell background, but the color terminology, Foreground Color /
Background Color provide the fill pattern with two colors to work with.
Most of the fills have two colors, but SOLID_FOREGROUND only uses the
Foreground color. So in order to set a Grey solid background for the cell
you really need to:

CellStyle codeFill = wb.createCellStyle();
codeFill.setFillForegroundColor(IndexedColors.BLUE_GREY.getIndex());
 // seems to set Foreground color instead
codeFill.setFillPattern(FillPatternType.SOLID_FOREGROUND);

I have had issues with this turning the cell black when selected, so I also
like to add:

codeFill.setFillBackgroundColor(65);

Which seems to fix the issue.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Dagnon, William 
wrote:

> 1.  after more experimenting:  Nope, Excel skips displaying any
> Medium-thickness borders on Column “A”, but will at least display the
> others.  Which is idiotic and negates any WYSIWYG of Excel.
>
> 2. background fill: yes, that works fine through Excel.  Except I am
> generating files and cannot go through every sheet of every workbook and
> manually make changes every time.
>
>
> Also: I cannot see either image you included.
>
>
> From: Mark Murphy [mailto:jmarkmur...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 11:20 AM
> To: POI Users List 
> Subject: Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating
> XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus
>
> Can you do what you want in Excel?
>
> Here is what it looks like when I add borders in Excel.
>
> [cid:ii_jea7bvbr0_161e7b89dcdf1fa2]
> The borders are re there though. If I look in Print Preview, it looks like
> this:
>
> [cid:ii_jea7dai41_161e7b9a118b7e5a]
>
> So maybe what you are seeing is just the way Excel renders the borders you
> have created.
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dagnon, William  > wrote:
> Hello, long time fan, but long time since I last used POI.
>
> I've downloaded POI 3.17 and I'm generating XLSX files from Groovy within
> Eclipse IDE backed by Java 8, and started at:
> https://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html#FillsAndFrills<
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoi.
> apache.org%2Fspreadsheet%2Fquick-guide.html%23FillsAndFrills=02%7C01%
> 7CWilliam.Dagnon%40wpsic.com%7C7c13f919985c4262ad7708d58061e63d%
> 7C6b61581df3634ffb8f7fd517e2227a0c%7C0%7C0%7C636556080333189845=
> lUqZ8EdvLV0VWbC9TQQEJ0OsbfYn4x6yTKN8cyAt7To%3D=0>
> Though looked at the API when there were problems and updated my code
> slightly to use XSSFColors instead of IndexedColors.
>
> However some of the formatting I'm trying is failing to display in MS
> Office 365 ProPlus. Unfortunately I don't have anything else to test it in:
>
>
>   1.  LEFT BORDER NEVER DISPLAYS in "A" Column
>
>
>
> I'm putting a medium border around a group of cells: the top, right, and
> bottom cells' borders display fine, but the left border (in the left-most
> column, "A") never displays.  This is for left-only, top-left, and
> bottom-left cells: for top- and bottom-, their other border DOES display.
>
> When I go into the cell style for it, the medium border is there in their
> graphic, and I can remove and re-add it.  It simply isn't displaying in the
> GUI.
>
>
>
> If I go into another left-most cell - either above (one I've defined) or
> below (one I never did a createCell(0) call for) and put the same border in
> there through Excel, it also does NOT display!?
>
>
>
> Still in the Excel dialog: if I click on the top preset "Outline".. I can
> click all day and the format never toggles 'off' - so the left border seems
> to be corrupted for the whole worksheet's "A" column so much that the GUI
> cannot overwrite the corruption.
>
>
>
> I can set the left border on any non-"A" column cells through Excel just
> fine.
>
> My Groovy code looks like:
> Workbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook();
> XSSFColor black = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(0, 0, 0));
> CellStyle vLeft = wb.createCellStyle()   // I only make 1 style
> for all (only) left-bordered cells. Another for the top-left corner, etc.
> vLeft.setBorderLeft(BorderStyle.MEDIUM)  // same style I use for
> all the working cells
> vLeft.setLeftBorderColor(black); // same color I use for
> correctly-displaying border cells
>
> XSSFSheet newSheet = wb.createSheet(name)
> row = newSheet.createRow(ii)
> Cell content = row.createCell(jj++)
> content.setCellStyle(vLeft)
>
>
>
>   1.  BACKGROUND COLOR DISPLAYS AS BLACK
>
>
>
> I'm adding a blue-gray background color to certain lines, but it changes
> the cell 

RE: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Dagnon, William]

1.  after more experimenting:  Nope, Excel skips displaying any 
Medium-thickness borders on Column “A”, but will at least display the others.  
Which is idiotic and negates any WYSIWYG of Excel.

2. background fill: yes, that works fine through Excel.  Except I am generating 
files and cannot go through every sheet of every workbook and manually make 
changes every time.


Also: I cannot see either image you included.


From: Mark Murphy [mailto:jmarkmur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 11:20 AM
To: POI Users List 
Subject: Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating 
XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

Can you do what you want in Excel?

Here is what it looks like when I add borders in Excel.

[cid:ii_jea7bvbr0_161e7b89dcdf1fa2]
The borders are re there though. If I look in Print Preview, it looks like this:

[cid:ii_jea7dai41_161e7b9a118b7e5a]

So maybe what you are seeing is just the way Excel renders the borders you have 
created.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dagnon, William 
> wrote:
Hello, long time fan, but long time since I last used POI.

I've downloaded POI 3.17 and I'm generating XLSX files from Groovy within 
Eclipse IDE backed by Java 8, and started at:
https://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html#FillsAndFrills
Though looked at the API when there were problems and updated my code slightly 
to use XSSFColors instead of IndexedColors.

However some of the formatting I'm trying is failing to display in MS Office 
365 ProPlus. Unfortunately I don't have anything else to test it in:


  1.  LEFT BORDER NEVER DISPLAYS in "A" Column



I'm putting a medium border around a group of cells: the top, right, and bottom 
cells' borders display fine, but the left border (in the left-most column, "A") 
never displays.  This is for left-only, top-left, and bottom-left cells: for 
top- and bottom-, their other border DOES display.

When I go into the cell style for it, the medium border is there in their 
graphic, and I can remove and re-add it.  It simply isn't displaying in the GUI.



If I go into another left-most cell - either above (one I've defined) or below 
(one I never did a createCell(0) call for) and put the same border in there 
through Excel, it also does NOT display!?



Still in the Excel dialog: if I click on the top preset "Outline".. I can click 
all day and the format never toggles 'off' - so the left border seems to be 
corrupted for the whole worksheet's "A" column so much that the GUI cannot 
overwrite the corruption.



I can set the left border on any non-"A" column cells through Excel just fine.

My Groovy code looks like:
Workbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook();
XSSFColor black = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(0, 0, 0));
CellStyle vLeft = wb.createCellStyle()   // I only make 1 style for all 
(only) left-bordered cells. Another for the top-left corner, etc.
vLeft.setBorderLeft(BorderStyle.MEDIUM)  // same style I use for all 
the working cells
vLeft.setLeftBorderColor(black); // same color I use for 
correctly-displaying border cells

XSSFSheet newSheet = wb.createSheet(name)
row = newSheet.createRow(ii)
Cell content = row.createCell(jj++)
content.setCellStyle(vLeft)



  1.  BACKGROUND COLOR DISPLAYS AS BLACK



I'm adding a blue-gray background color to certain lines, but it changes the 
cell to fill completely black.


XSSFColor bluegray = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(217, 225, 242));
CellStyle codeFill = wb.createCellStyle();
codeFill.setFillBackgroundColor(bluegray);   // seems to set 
Foreground color instead
codeFill.setFillPattern(FillPatternType.SOLID_FOREGROUND);   // As 
the Quick Guide directs: leave it out and NO Fill styles get set!

cell.setCellStyle(codeFill)  // No other styles on these cells... 
so far.



Going into Format Cells.. > Fill, the pattern color is correct. Pattern style 
is empty, and under Background Color, the button at top "No Color" is 
depressed.  So it seems like the underlying code is confused about what it is 
setting.



  1.  ROW STYLE FILL = BLACK, ONLY to the REST of the ROW



If I instead try:

row.setRowStyle(codeFill)

The bad styles described above in #2 are applied to all columns of the row 
AFTER the current one instead of to ALL cells in the row - why??


I don't have the time to delve into the details of why these fail to work, so 
I'm asking here in case someone has answers/alternatives so I can get the same 
styles quickly.

Re: POI 3.17 Problems with border and fill styles in generating XSSF/xlsx files, viewed in MS Office 365 ProPlus

[Mark Murphy]

Can you do what you want in Excel?

Here is what it looks like when I add borders in Excel.



The borders are re there though. If I look in Print Preview, it looks like
this:


So maybe what you are seeing is just the way Excel renders the borders you
have created.


On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dagnon, William 
wrote:

> Hello, long time fan, but long time since I last used POI.
>
> I've downloaded POI 3.17 and I'm generating XLSX files from Groovy within
> Eclipse IDE backed by Java 8, and started at:
> https://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html#FillsAndFrills
> Though looked at the API when there were problems and updated my code
> slightly to use XSSFColors instead of IndexedColors.
>
> However some of the formatting I'm trying is failing to display in MS
> Office 365 ProPlus. Unfortunately I don't have anything else to test it in:
>
>
>   1.  LEFT BORDER NEVER DISPLAYS in "A" Column
>
>
>
> I'm putting a medium border around a group of cells: the top, right, and
> bottom cells' borders display fine, but the left border (in the left-most
> column, "A") never displays.  This is for left-only, top-left, and
> bottom-left cells: for top- and bottom-, their other border DOES display.
>
> When I go into the cell style for it, the medium border is there in their
> graphic, and I can remove and re-add it.  It simply isn't displaying in the
> GUI.
>
>
>
> If I go into another left-most cell - either above (one I've defined) or
> below (one I never did a createCell(0) call for) and put the same border in
> there through Excel, it also does NOT display!?
>
>
>
> Still in the Excel dialog: if I click on the top preset "Outline".. I can
> click all day and the format never toggles 'off' - so the left border seems
> to be corrupted for the whole worksheet's "A" column so much that the GUI
> cannot overwrite the corruption.
>
>
>
> I can set the left border on any non-"A" column cells through Excel just
> fine.
>
> My Groovy code looks like:
> Workbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook();
> XSSFColor black = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(0, 0, 0));
> CellStyle vLeft = wb.createCellStyle()   // I only make 1 style
> for all (only) left-bordered cells. Another for the top-left corner, etc.
> vLeft.setBorderLeft(BorderStyle.MEDIUM)  // same style I use for
> all the working cells
> vLeft.setLeftBorderColor(black); // same color I use for
> correctly-displaying border cells
>
> XSSFSheet newSheet = wb.createSheet(name)
> row = newSheet.createRow(ii)
> Cell content = row.createCell(jj++)
> content.setCellStyle(vLeft)
>
>
>
>   1.  BACKGROUND COLOR DISPLAYS AS BLACK
>
>
>
> I'm adding a blue-gray background color to certain lines, but it changes
> the cell to fill completely black.
>
>
> XSSFColor bluegray = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(217, 225,
> 242));
> CellStyle codeFill = wb.createCellStyle();
> codeFill.setFillBackgroundColor(bluegray);   // seems to set
> Foreground color instead
> codeFill.setFillPattern(FillPatternType.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
>  // As the Quick Guide directs: leave it out and NO Fill styles get set!
>
> cell.setCellStyle(codeFill)  // No other styles on these
> cells... so far.
>
>
>
> Going into Format Cells.. > Fill, the pattern color is correct. Pattern
> style is empty, and under Background Color, the button at top "No Color" is
> depressed.  So it seems like the underlying code is confused about what it
> is setting.
>
>
>
>   1.  ROW STYLE FILL = BLACK, ONLY to the REST of the ROW
>
>
>
> If I instead try:
>
> row.setRowStyle(codeFill)
>
> The bad styles described above in #2 are applied to all columns of the row
> AFTER the current one instead of to ALL cells in the row - why??
>
>
> I don't have the time to delve into the details of why these fail to work,
> so I'm asking here in case someone has answers/alternatives so I can get
> the same styles quickly.
>
> What am I doing incorrectly?
>
> Are these 3.17-specific bugs?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> P.S. Apologies: sent from Outlook - I pray the content is still legible...
>
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