Noob needs help with "Dynamic Text" element

Hello everybody!

I have a problem with the PDF version of one of my reports here.

It's basically just a table. Many rows, and 3 columns wide. I got a bug report a while back that the 3rd column was displaying raw HTML tags, as opposed to interpreting the HTML. Naturally, I chose to use the Dynamic Text element to solve this problem.

Now I have another problem. Let's suppose that, on the very last row displayed on page 1, the 3rd cell renders HTML that has a 'paragraph' tag at the very beginning. If this is the case, the first 2 columns will render in the last row on page 1, however because of the 'paragraph' tag, the information in column 3 will get kicked down to the top row in page 2.

I tried messing with the 'Page Break' properties in the BIRT designer, but it won't let me change any of them.

Also spent some time searching around this forum, but couldn't find any info. I could have missed it though.

Any ideas on how to prevent this mid-row page breaking?

Thanks in advance

-Langecrew-

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mwilliams

Hi Langecrew,

What version of BIRT are you using?

langecrew

Hello, good sir.

looks like I'm rockin out with version 2.3.1, running through the latest eclipse.

langecrew

Hm, as I'm getting deeper into my forum search, I'm seeing more and more posts about problems with PDF reports and page breaks.

Bummer

mwilliams

Langecrew,

BIRT reintroduced the "avoid pagebreak within" feature in BIRT 2.5 if you have the ability to upgrade. They had removed it starting in 2.3.1 because of issues with it working properly. I'm assuming it works better in its rerelease. I have not done any extensive testing to check it out yet.

langecrew

right on. Thanks! I'll see what I can do about that and I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks,
-Langecrew-

mwilliams

Langecrew,

Sounds good. I'll try to test some here on it as well. I'll post what I see also.