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Rocky Pulley
Rocky Pulley

Reputation: 23301

Multi-page text report with BIRT

I have a report which I need to create with BIRT which is simply two large sections of text. The text will come in from XML, so I could use an XML datasource to load the text, but how do I just create a text section which could span multiple pages, I'm not using tabular data or anything like that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1587

Answers (3)

ESP
ESP

Reputation: 999

Something to note when having dynamic text span multiple pages:

The report layout should be set to "Auto Layout", otherwise it duplicates the text over multiple pages. This is only applicable when using the report viewer.

No good if you want to use fixed layout for a report.

Upvotes: -1

John Ward
John Ward

Reputation: 166

If you have an XML source with two elements, each containing a large section of text, you can use the XML data source or the Scripted Data Source. Drop the Data Set into a table, and set the page break on the Detail row to 1 row and always. This will break up the two large text elements into separate pages.

Upvotes: 3

user359040
user359040

Reputation:

No special measures should be required for a text section to split over multiple pages - this will happen automatically, if the field is large enough to require paging.

Upvotes: 1

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