Conditional formatting for MATLAB Report Generator Table

I'm generating a report using MATLAB Report Generator and I've created a FormalTable() object and populated it with a m x n cell array of data. I've been trying to conditionally format the cells with no success. I can't seem to find a way to access individual cells of the FormalTable() to set a BackgroundColor property (or any other formatting property). Any style format objects I assign to FormalTable() properties such as TableEntriesStyle or Style set that format globally for the entire table.

The workaround is to rather create a m*n series of Text() objects for which I can individually set format properties based on some condition. The challenge is then aligning those text objects on the page to resemble a table. I cannot seem to find how to set the size and location properties of a text object in order to place it on a page.

Any suggestions on how to create a conditionally formatted table for a MATLAB report?

Answer 1

[Krishnan Ramkumar]

You can access individual cell from a Formal Table. A sample example code snippet to access and modify Styles of table entry

import mlreportgen.dom.*;

doc = Document('test');

a = magic(5);

table = FormalTable(a);

table.RowSep = 'Solid'

table.ColSep = 'Solid'

table.Border = 'Solid'

table.Body.entry(1,2).Style = {Color('red')} ;

table.Body.entry(1,1).Style = {BackgroundColor('Green')};

append(doc,table);

close(doc);

rptview(doc.OutputPath);