How to reset page number at object print ?

[spize]

Hi people !

I have a report that can span dozens of pages with a couple of subreports.  Each print of my object / table / data source can take 3 or more pages. Because of this, my client wants to have the page counter (format Page X / Y) reset for every print, but I have no idea how to do this. Maybe I can with custom variables and scriptlet ? I honestly have no idea...

So if I try to rephrase, I have a page number, but I want the number of page to reset every time the object being printed changes. How can I achieve this ?

Thanks !

 

[hozawa]

It's possible to reset page number but the problem is with the "Y". I don't think there is a way to get total number of pages based on custom reset criteria.

I had a similar situation and I just ended up writing Java program and looping to generate reports(jrprint object) on each criteria and merging them together at the end.

[spize]

And how would one go to reset page number if I were to somehow be able to convice my clients to drop the Page X of Y for a Page X ?

If I can't, then printing each report individually and strapping them together at the end will be the way to go ?

Thanks