Resizable page footer

[ahallez]

Hello all,

I'm trying to implement a resizable page footer in my reports. I tried several approaches, but nothing was succesfull.

The user has the option specify an image that should be in the footer. If there's no image, the band height should be reduced, otherwise the band height should be adjusted to the image height. The image is passed as a parameter.

I tried a combination of printWhenExpression for deciding wether the image should be printed or not and isRemoveLineWhenBlank to shrink the band if the image is not printed. I also tried to start out with a low band height and set scaleImage to RealHeight in order to increase the band height. None of these approaches works. The band is just always the same height.

So my impression is that band resizing is not supported for the page footer.

Would this be something to add? I understand that it is difficult to fill pages if the footer size can vary throughout the report, but in this case, the footer size can be determined once a the beginning and remains the same for all of the pages.

Kind regards,

Axel Hallez

Post Edited by ahallez at 11/01/2009 19:28