[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Access data from page handler?

[Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guenter,

Why not use the bookmark of the group to locate the page in the 
rptdocument.  The report document has a method for getting the page like:
IReportDocument.getPageNumber(bookMark)

Jason



Guenter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have a page handler associated with an IRunTask. Currently, we use it 
> only to count the total number of pages that will be produced when we render 
> the report for HTML.
>
> The report contains a group with a defined page break after each group 
> element. Now we need to know which data is displayed on which page because 
> the users want a function to jump to a specific page (based on the contents 
> of the grouping variable). Is it possible to find out the value of the 
> "group-on" variable in the page handler?  (if yes, we could create a map of 
> group-values to page numbers in the page handler).
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Best regards,
> Günter