BIRT and RSA 7.4 - Page Break

I am using IBM Rational Software Architect 7.5.2 and have created a report but I am having problems with pagination. I have a page with nested tables and I want table rows to break accross pages. For each table there are three page break choices: Before, After, and Inside. But the options for each Before and After is either 'Auto' or 'Always'. The option for Inside is always "Auto".

What's up with these options? Is there something I need to enable to get other options?

The eclipse software update shows that BIRT 2.3.2r232 is installed.

When I print on PDF the entire table is compressed onto one page. When I print in word the page break interval value kicks in. I just want to get as much content on to one page as can fit and then table then flows on to the next page. Should be easy! But it is not..

Any ideas?

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pbaker01

I have researched this problem and it is seems to be generic and not related to Rational Software Archetect.

The problem is, I have a report where each detail line can include a description. The description text will vary in length. Some descriptions may consume 1 line or 10 lines of the report. I want to to set the 'Inside' page break to 'Auto' AND the 'Page Break Interval' to 'Auto'. I don't want to be forced to specify a value. When the table row contents consume the page then a page break is generated - automatically.

Does anyone know how I can do this? Perhaps with a script? I would need a function that could tell me how much space is left on the page and how much space the new component that I want to present requires. (does this make sense?)

Thanks in advance!