issue about the page number and total page count

savinyqs

Hi everybody,

I am facing a problem when I use BIRT 2.5. Please find the detail below:

Requirement:
There will be generate serval reports in a PDF file and identify each report by bookmark. In the footer, it need to show a page information like "Page [currentPage]/[totalPageCount]" of each report. For exsample, assume it will generate three reports, the first report have 3 pages, the second one have 4 pages and the third one have 3 pages. Then the footer should show "Page [1\2\3]/3" for the first report, "Page [1\2\3\4]/4" for the second report and "Page [1\2\3]/3" for the third report.\

Issue:
Since I don't know how many pages in a report before it generate, I have no idea how to get the current page and total page count by script. I tried to use the auto-text "PageNumber", but it can only show the page number of whole PDF file not each report. And I tried to access the "pageNumber" variable, but seems that it the pageNumber only updated every time the report has a pagebreak, but each of my report is no pagebreak untill the end. So the result is not correct if I access the "pageNumber" variable.

is there any ideas for how to access the current page number and total page in auto-text? And is there any API to get the current page number like the auto-text?

Please feel free to contact me if any query.

Best Regards,
Savin

JRiglar

Hi, a repaginate example and a group page numbering example for you.

regards

J