XLS Border Formatter

The XLS Border Formatter node changes cell borders of a given range (not necessarily rectangular) specified by tags in a control table. You can select which borders of the matching cells shall be displayed in which style and optionally also change the border color accordingly.

This node defines a formatting instruction only. It needs to be written to an xlsx file via the XLS Formatter (apply) node subsequently.

Options

Tag Selection

applies to tag (single tag only)

Tag in your input table for which the formatting of this node should be applied to.

applies to all tags

Instead of specifying a single tag, the border formatting is applied repetitively to all distinct tags found in the control table. Note that in this case, no comma-separated tag list splitting is applied but the full cell content qualifies as a tag.

This option eases definition of adjacent border ranges based on the original data table's values.

Border Style and Color

border style

Select the style your border should get (e.g. normal, thick, dashed, ...).

Change color?

If you want to change the color you can enable it here.

color

Select the color using the color pane.

Outer Border Settings

top

Set the top outer border of your tag range(s).

left

Set the left outer border of your tag range(s).

right

Set the right outer border of your tag range(s).

bottom

Set the bottom outer border of your tag range(s).

Inner Border Settings

inner vertical

Set the inner vertical border of your tag range(s).

inner horizontal

Set the inner horizontal border of your tag range(s).

Input Ports

XLS Control Table holding tags that define which cells of the sheet to format.

The XLS Formatter input port potentially holding previous formatting instructions that the instructions of this node shall be added to.

Output Ports

The XLS Formatter output port holding the collected formatting instructions including the added formatting information from this node.

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Workflows

• 02_​Pretty_​Table (KNIME Hub) 
• 03_​Logistics (KNIME Hub) 
• 04_​XLS_​BorderFormatter (KNIME Hub) 
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Installation

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