Bug 315347

Summary: Report item extension api manual page break capabilities missing
Product: z_Archived Reporter: qbit <stefan.barthel>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Wei Yan <wyan>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bluesoldier, stefan.barthel, wenfeng.fwd, zqian
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: plan
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description qbit CLA 2010-06-02 02:47:14 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

The ReportItemPresentationBase class is missing some capabilites for manual page breaks.
Example: If there is a huge amount of data which definitly does not fit on a page than within the method "onrowsets" it would be nice to somehow call a manual page break and return the first part of the data as for example an image. After that page break iterate over the rest of the data and again return that as an image on the next page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a dataset which delivers 30 pictures 120x120px
2. write an report item which is like a flowlayout for these pictures
3. return the result as one image
Comment 1 Wenfeng Li CLA 2010-06-03 03:20:28 EDT 
Enhancement to let extended report item plugin to submit to layout engine a page break request, after generating content for part of the report item.
Comment 2 qbit CLA 2010-07-28 09:40:14 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Enhancement to let extended report item plugin to submit to layout engine a
> page break request, after generating content for part of the report item.

Has anything happened already regarding this issue?