Dynamic Number of Rows

Can you make a table or grid to keep on adding empty rows until the bottom of a page?

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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'Anson'" data-cid="84691" data-time="1319958547" data-date="30 October 2011 - 12:09 AM"><p>
Can you make a table or grid to keep on adding empty rows until the bottom of a page?<br /></p></blockquote>
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Can i ask why you would want this?

Anson

I have a dynamic header and a grid/ table below. I would like to make that table fill the rest of the page with empty rows(so I can print it out and write in them).

Anson

Anson

As seen in the attached report, I would like to create blank rows to fill up the rest of the page. I would like to add blank rows until the bottom of the page.

mwilliams

From what you told me in email, you have a variable height header though, right? If not, like this example shows, you can simply add group footer rows to the table and show/hide the number needed to extend the table to the bottom or you could use html to push the footer to the bottom. Both approaches can be seen in these devShare posts. Let me know.

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/1355-extending-a-table-to-a-certain-number-of-rows-with-alternating-row-color/

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/989-extend-table-to-fit-page/

Anson

Yes, the example is not exactly the same. I do indeed have a header with a dynamic height. I would like to add rows until the bottom of the page. So instead of having a table with a certain number of rows, I would like to create a table that adds blank rows until it detects the next row will be on a new page.

mwilliams

Either of these two approaches will probably work for you. The only issue is that you'll need to approximate the number of rows that the dynamic header will take up. You'll have to do this in script based on text length or something of that nature.