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Bug 330544

Summary:

'Show header on first' [first page] option isn't working for Word DOC files

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Dmitry Balzer <balzerd>

Component:

BIRT

Assignee:

Yu Chen <yChen>

Status:

VERIFIED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

balzerd, bluesoldier, jouyang, wenfeng.fwd

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

3.7.0 M7

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Obsolete

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Header options in Word	none
DOC file exported by 3.7.0 M7	none
sample report design	none

Description Dmitry Balzer

2010-11-18 05:09:37 EST

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

The 'Show header on first' option isn't working for Word DOC files, although Word has has a similar option that hides the header on the first report page.

Deactivating 'Show header on first' option in BIRT Report Designer causes the header to disappear on ALL pages when previewed as a Word DOC. At the same time, this feature works fine for PDF.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create any report that contains more than one page.
2. Add a header to the report.
3. Disable 'show header on first' option.
4. Preview report in Word DOC format - all headers disappear.

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2010-11-18 21:22:55 EST

This is the limitation of Word. Word don't have the option to show header only on the 1st page.

Comment 2 Dmitry Balzer

2010-11-19 04:26:47 EST

Created attachment 183454 [details]
Header options in Word

Comment 3 Dmitry Balzer

2010-11-19 04:59:28 EST

Hi Xiaoying,

please check the screenshot I've just attached. 
There is an option in Word that allows for different headers/footers to be shown on the first page of the document.

Could BIRT make use of this feature to add an empty header to the first page and the intended header to all further pages?

Cheers

Comment 4 Xiaoying Gu

2010-11-22 01:33:17 EST

Sorry, I did not check the word option carefully. I can see the issues now.

Comment 5 Dmitry Balzer

2010-11-22 05:35:01 EST

Thanks Xiaoying, 
look forward to hearing from you.

Comment 6 Dmitry Balzer

2010-11-30 06:04:37 EST

Hi Xiaoying, 
could you please provide an update on this?
Any chance this fix can make it into 2.6.2?

Thank you,
Dmitry

Comment 7 Dmitry Balzer

2011-05-09 07:17:21 EDT

Is this issue now fixed in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287414 ?

Comment 8 Dmitry Balzer

2011-05-09 08:59:57 EDT

Tested BIRT 3.7.0 M7 - it still hides header on All pages in Word is 'Show header on first' is disabled.

Comment 9 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-10 01:59:26 EDT

The issue has been fixed in 3.7M7.

Please see my attached DOC file and test report. The page header was hidden for the first page with this options diabled.

Comment 10 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-10 02:00:03 EDT

Created attachment 195171 [details]
DOC file exported by 3.7.0 M7

Comment 11 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-10 02:00:24 EDT

Created attachment 195172 [details]
sample report design

Comment 12 Yu Chen

2011-05-10 03:51:04 EDT

This bug only exists when the first HTML page will be split into several DOC pages. This kind of pagination is done by MS WORD, so we are not able to know where the page break will occur. For example, the first HTML page will be split into 3 DOC pages by MS WORD. Our DOC emitter handles the page header/footer for every HTML page, so the 3 DOC pages will not have the header.

Currently, because the default layout preference is Fixed layout, One HTML page corresponds to one DOC page, the bug is not likely reproducible.

Comment 13 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-11 23:21:29 EDT

Verified in 3.7M7.