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Page breaks

Dawton

Hello,
I'd like to have report that displays:

1st page: report header - some general report description (no page header & footer here)
other pages: page header - data (table) - page footer

what layout should I use? I mean what to put on "master page" and what to "layout" page and where shall I put page breaks?
I'm playing with it but it is still not like I need

Thanks a lot for help
D.

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mwilliams

Hi Dawton,

You can create multiple master pages for a report. One of them blank and one of them with the header and footer you want on each page. On your desciption element, click on the page break section of the property editor and set the page break after to always and choose the blank master page. Then, on the table item, go to the page break section of the property editor and choose the other master page. This should do what you want.

Hope this helps.

mos

Hi,

I'm also having some issues with the page break, I'm not sure it's because BIRT is not as flexible.. Anyway I would like to display the following on my report. I hope some experts here can give some guidance.

After every page break of the Group, I would like to reset my page count to 1 and the total number of pages should reflect the total page break I had for that group and not the total pages of the report.

Example, my data returns me a result of, and I display 50 rows per page
group 1 - 10 rows
group 2 - 250 rows

My report will display the total number of pages as follow:
group 1 - page 1 of 1. (10 rows)
group 2 - page 1 of 5. (50 rows)
group 2 - page 2 of 5. (50 rows)
group 2 - page 3 of 5. (50 rows)
group 2 - page 4 of 5. (50 rows)
group 2 - page 5 of 5. (50 rows)

Thanks!

mwilliams

Hi mos, 
 
To my knowledge there is no way to get your page numbers like that with BIRT. You may be able to somehow do your own page figuring in your report in like the group header, but I'm not sure that'd work either. This may be a good thing to add as an enhancement request for BIRT. You can enter a request at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/reportabug.php'>BIRT: Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements</a>

mwilliams

mos, 
 
One thing I thought of that I forgot to tell you. You could create defferent reports for each group and then join the reports into 1 pdf document. This way they'd all have the page numbers the way you'd like. You can see how to join reports by looking at the following thread: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/forum/designing-birt-reports/11695-how-can-one-add-pages-single-report.html'>http://www.birt-exchange.com/forum/designing-birt-reports/11695-how-can-one-add-pages-single-report.html</a>

Dawton

Hi Michael,
thanks for hint - I created a new master page but now I got stucked - only the new masterpage with the page header & footer is displayed.
In your hint you speak about blank master page - you mean my very first info page with some general report info as I described in the original question of this thread?
Thanks a lot
D.

mwilliams

Dawton,

You should now have 2 different master pages with your report. Each report item has the option of which master page you want included with that item. So, you should be able to have your first page of your report with your description of the report on the master page that you have that is blank i.e. nothing in the header and footer, and you should then be able to select the other master page for the table. Is it not working like this?

Dawton

Hi Michael,
yes, I have 2 masterpages:

1. ReportHeader
it has empty Masterpage value (in Properties / Advanced / Section)

2. PageHeader
it has Masterpage value set to ReportHeader (in Properties / Advanced / Section)

then there is a table on Layout page that has Masterpage value set to ReportHeader

I understand it like I create links between masterpages and data objects - right?

But it does not work

PS: please can you have a look on the legend layout problem? I've already attached my report design to that thread

mwilliams

mos, 
 
I found a way to display page n of m for each group. I posted an example report in the devShare. Here's the link: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/designing-birt-reports/491-page-numbers-in-report-layout-/'>Page numbers in report layout. - Designs & Code - BIRT Exchange</a> 
 
Hope this helps.

mos

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="mwilliams">mos, 
 
I found a way to display page n of m for each group. I posted an example report in the devShare. Here's the link: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/designing-birt-reports/491-page-numbers-in-report-layout-/'>Page numbers in report layout. - Designs & Code - BIRT Exchange</a> 
 
Hope this helps.</blockquote>
 
Thanks! It does help

Dawton

Hello Michael,
please please could you tell me a little bit more about using more master pages? I still can not make it working

Thanks a lot!
*D.

mwilliams

Dawton,

I don't think that choosing "none" for master page or leaving it blank works correctly. Because of this, you need to actually have two master pages. One named something like "FirstPage" and the other named "TablePages" so you know which master page to put on which report item. You can create new master pages by going to the report outline, right-click on masterpages and choose insert element.

In your report design, you say you have a text box of some sort describing the report. You need to click on the text item, then go to it's page break section in the property editor and set the page break after to always and the master page to "FirstPage".

Then below your text box, you have a table that you want a header and footer in the master page for. Select the table and go to the page break section in the property editor and set the master page to "TablePages". This should give you the ability to customize each master page to look how you want it for the two sections of your report.

Let me know if I've got you totally confused.

Dawton

Hi Michael,
now it works (and I understand

) - thanks a lot!!!
It's a little bit different design philosophy than I know from Crystal reports...

*D.

Raed

Hi;

In ur example u r using interval to be fixed, but if i dont want to use interval
how can i reset the page number without interval

Thanks

mwilliams

Hi Raed,

I'm not sure of a way to get the number of pages per group without setting an interval and calculating it besides having two identical tables, figuring the number of pages in the first table that you would hide and then use the info from the first table in the second table. This would not be practical for large amounts of data though. If I find a way around using intervals, I'll let you know.