I am working with an application in Powerbuilder 2021. I created a composite report with 3 nested reports. Each report has the page count in their header. How can i get the page count in the trailing 2 reports be a continuation of the page count from the preceding report?
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Raymond Longoria
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- Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:59 PM UTC
Hi, Raymond -
In the "container" DW, try adding a Page Computed Field in the Footer. Note that you cannot create a generic computed field, but need to instead use the one that is predefined, as the generic one is disabled in the drop-down toolbar in a composite DW:
To test, I created a composite DW with two nested reports, the first one being five pages long and the second one 18 pages long. For testing, I left the "Page n of nnn" computed field in the footer of each nested report. Here is what I see:
This also works if you place the Page Computed Field in the composite DW's header band instead of the footer band.
Regards, John
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- Raymond Longoria
- Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:25 PM UTC
Miguel,
That is what I want to do. I don't know how to pass the page count from the previous report as an argument to the retrieval of the second report.
That is what I want to do. I don't know how to pass the page count from the previous report as an argument to the retrieval of the second report.
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Actually I need the page number from the container dw inside the nested report header. For example, I want to get the page count from the first nested report and pass it as a parameter to the second nested report because it has a computed field that calculates the page number. How do I get the page count from the first nested report?