Vertical Page Position for Table Footers

bmac

I am working in BIRT 2.3.2 with Maximo. There is a requirement to place a block of data at the bottom of the last page of the report. The report is 1 to n pages long and the body has a variable number of variable size lines. The obvious place to put the data is in a table footer except I cannot force the footer to the bottom of the page. It sure would be nice if the table footer row "vertical alignment" pull down list had a bottom of page option.

I have tried every work around I can think of including custom master pages for the footer but nothing works very well. If I could find out the vertical position of the footer on the page, then dynamically change the footer height so it filled the remainder of the page, that would do the trick.

I have a feeling that, since I can specify page position in other report writers, this sort of thing should be possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?

bmac

mwilliams

The way I've done this is to compute the number of lines used, on the page, and then push the footer down with either extra footer rows or html line breaks.