Masterpage with content on the left side?

Ima Pojo

Hi everybody,

I develop reports in BIRT for a few months and took over an existing project for layout modification. First it looked very easy, but now I really found no easy solution for my problem.

I have a rptdesign for bank confirmations with a simple masterpage including header and footer. Header and footer repeat on every new page, with running page number and some text. This is no problem. Now there must be something similar on left(!) of the masterpage; there, where the left margin is. There I want to situate some signs that will be in future used by the customer as control characters.

The bank confirmation can go over one page and those control characters must repeat. For the first page a special constellation of signs, for pages > 1 another one.

Actually I have found no way for creating a left "header" or something else for the masterpage. Or maybe I cannot use the masterpage for this? I also tried to situate free text labels (hmmm... can they be free one?) using a design handle but this actually does not work.

I would be happy if anyone have some ideas.

Thank you very much!

Greetings from Germany

mwilliams

I've seen a similar question before, but I don't know that there's really a good solution. The current masterpage setup allows for only a top and bottom header. You could potentially use two separate masterpages and background images, but I don't know how dynamic this would be. The last time I encountered this, I think we ended up using a group header or detail row to display the image, but the image needed in this case was just a tiny dash, for printing purposes. What are you needing to show? Could you show a screen shot? Maybe we can figure something out.