New Master Page

seleach

IBM's brief around master pages goes into great detail about modifying the only master page supplied in V7. At the end it has a generic 'If you want to use a variety of paper sizes..... create a new masterpage definition in MaximoSystemLibrary'.
Can someone help me with some of the details in creating new masterpage definitions. I want one that is standard paper in portrait orientation and one that is legal paper in landscape.
I figure a copy and paste of everything between the <page-setup> lines is a start with the changing of the name, orientation and inserting a property type of legal is a start. What do I change the 'id' to? How do I separate the page-setup groups so the system will recognize them?

Virgil Dodson

Hi seleach,<br />
<br />
Genereally in BIRT, you just right click on MasterPages in the Report Outline view and Add a new Master page... My XML source then looks like below after I renamed my two master pages:<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
<page-setup>
<simple-master-page name="USLetter MasterPage" id="2">
<property name="type">us-letter</property>
<property name="orientation">portrait</property>
<page-footer>
<text id="3">
<property name="contentType">html</property>
<text-property name="content"><![CDATA[<value-of>new Date()</value-of>]]></text-property>
</text>
</page-footer>
</simple-master-page>
<simple-master-page name="Legal MasterPage" id="99">
<property name="type">us-legal</property>
<property name="orientation">landscape</property>
</simple-master-page>
</page-setup>
</pre>
<br />
Then when you apply a Master Page to an item like a table in the Page Break tab of the Property Editor, you'll see a masterPage property added:<br />
<br />
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
<table id="70">
<property name="masterPage">Legal MasterPage</property>
...
</pre>