Print 2 separate pages in 1 report

[2001 JI Open Discussion]

By: Baiju Thakkar - baiju12

Print 2 separate pages in 1 report

2002-08-14 16:04

I apologize if this is a very simple question. But I could not find any examples in the excellent documents.

 

I would like to simply print 1 report that has 2 pages. Both pages have the same header. Page 1 has one small image with text "Hello Page 1". Page 2 has another small image with text "Hello Page 2"

 

I could not figure out how to do page breaks. Can anyone help wiith the xml needed to accomplish a simple task.

 

Thank you very much.

 

 

By: Teodor Danciu - teodord

RE: Print 2 separate pages in 1 report

2002-08-14 23:43

 

Hi,

 

Is you report somehow static?

Does it always have 2 pages and prints only static

information or supplied by parameters and nothing

from the data source?

I imagine you are trying to generate something like

the two covers of a book.

 

If this is the case, then you can design the first

page using the title section of the report and the

second page using the summary section.

Set all the other band heights to zero (headers,

footers and detail). Make sure you specify that

isTitleNewPage="true".

When you fill the report, supply to the report filling

method this data source:

new JREmptyDataSource(1)

 

But if your design is more complicated than this,

and in fact what you need is to be able to generate

reports with more than two pages and you want to

control the page breaks, the only way is to

introduce groups in your report design.

Only at group level you have the possibility to say

that you want your group to start a new page every

time it changes.

For example, if I would want to have a new page

started for every row in may data source, then

I would introduce a "dummy" group that breaks

with every row and use isStartNewPage="true".

The expression for this dummy group can be:

<groupExpression>$V{REPORT_COUNT}</groupExpression>

 

I hope this helps.

Teodor

 

 

 

By: Baiju Thakkar - baiju12

RE: Print 2 separate pages in 1 report

2002-08-15 07:12

Yes, the report is in fact much more complicated than 2 static pages, it would be basically 1 static title page, and upto 100 dynamic pages. Where the pages consists of different sections. What I needed was a specific page break when a section ends. So the next section starts in a new page.

 

Yes grouping is exactly what we need with subreports.

 

BT