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Bug 198749

Summary:	Horizontal page break support
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Der Spunk <spunk_der>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Gang Liu <hustlg>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	jerlich, qaautoed, rkanguri, wenfeng.fwd, wyan, zqian
Version:	2.2.0	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	2.3.0 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	198230, 211715, 213900

Description Der Spunk

2007-08-02 19:14:17 EDT

Build ID: I20070625-1500

The PDF emitter tries to put all columns on the same page which will cause too slim columns and line wrapping when there are too many columns for one page, even with landscape orientation.

The PDF emitter should therefore support horizontal page breaks. The user should be able to provide hints to the emitter by selecting columns where a horizontal page break may occur. Of course this will also bring up the requirement to be able to select one or more columns that should be repeated on every page.

Comment 1 Wei Yan

2008-02-03 22:27:59 EST

need more time to finish this issue, defer to M6

Comment 2 Wei Yan

2008-03-23 23:40:20 EDT

*** Bug 220439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Wei Yan

2008-03-30 23:12:40 EDT

HTML support has been finish.

Comment 4 Gang Liu

2008-03-31 04:21:23 EDT

Model should support page-break property on table columns

Comment 5 Rick Lu

2008-03-31 04:34:30 EDT

as comment#4 said, added pageBreakBefore and pageBreakAfter properties on the Column element.

Comment 6 Wei Yan

2008-03-31 04:37:54 EDT

defer to future implementations to RC0, it contains:
1. performance optimization.
2. PDF support.

Comment 7 Gang Liu

2008-03-31 06:32:42 EDT

we finished the following features:
support horizontal page break in report document(Run task).
support horizontal page break in html report(RunAndRenderTask, RenderTask)
support horizontal page break in render PDF report(RenderTask).
In future we should support:
horizontal page break in PDF report(RunAndRendTask)

Comment 8 Wenfeng Li

2008-04-01 18:45:05 EDT

PLease log a separate enh bug for horizontal page break with runandrender task.

Comment 9 erlich

2008-09-08 15:05:58 EDT

from the editor.. what should i do to force a page break on a certain column?

Comment 10 Gang Liu

2008-09-08 22:12:53 EDT

Choose a column on editor, set page-break-before:always or page-break-after: always on page-break property sheet.

Comment 11 Rima Kanguri

2008-09-10 21:03:32 EDT

To set page break on a column follow the steps below
- select the cross tab report item
- in property editor view, select the 'column area' tab
- In the page break category, click on 'Add' to define a column page break

Comment 12 erlich

2008-09-24 10:19:02 EDT

But it doesn't have an option to set the page break interval? is there anyway to set interval for columns? or it only does support page break for every column??

Comment 13 Rima Kanguri

2008-09-25 17:56:34 EDT

Yes we do plan to support interval setting in 2.5. Let me find the related bugzilla entry