Variable Persistence

[RicKaufman]

I have a variable that I was setting through a scriptlet, and I was using the method afterReportInit().  This worked fine for the first page, but when it printed on the second page, the value was null.  I changed to using the method afterPageInit(), and this worked fine, but I'm confused as to why the variable value would have been re-set to null before I made this change.  Can anyone explain this to me?

Thanks,

Rick

[lknueve]

in Ultimate book this is what they have for the 2:

After Report Init -> This is called after all variables are initialized.

After Page Init -> This is called when a new page is created and after all variables having reset

type Page are initialized.

[RicKaufman]

Reset type for this variable is report, so I still don't understand why it was re-setting to null on the second page.