<div>i have seen that theres is often the question how to combine reports. But I don't find an applicable answer for that. My problem is, that I have many report files (about 300 and more). At runtime the user can decide which parts he want in his document, than every reports is rendered separatly to pdf, docx, pptx. Than the rendered parts are merged together with some 3rd party tools like itext, mergedocx, mergepptx.</div><div>There are after work after the combining, like stamping the pagenumber on pdf documents or generate the toc separtly and combine it to the whole document.</div><div> </div><div>For the design phase it's absolutly practically to design only one report per Page of the whole document. Without testing, I would say if I would design one reportfile with all our parts the designer couldn't handle it. Another avantage is that we can work with many people on the reporting. If more than one would work on one report, that could bring much conlicts I thought.</div><div> </div><div>But this approach has some disadvantage:</div><div> </div><div>I couldn't use the birt functionallty for generation Page numbers, toc generation, floating layout (because of every part has a new page, etc.)</div><div> </div><div>So isn't there a way to design report files separatly und combine them to one report before starting the rendering process, so that I can use the advantage of designing small parts in Report Designer and the advantange of one Report for the whole document using Pagenumbers in Masterpage, Toc Generation from Tocdefinitions of Elements, floating layout, etc.?</div><div> </div><div>Here is a feature request for this, but it seems nothing will happend on it:</div><div> </div><div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205265'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205265</a></div><div> </div>
