[news.eclipse.birt] custom page numbers

[kooudy@xxxxxxxx (felix )]

Hello,
I need page numbers only on several pages in the middle of report which 
contains special table (and I need their count). In order to do this I 
created new master page and drop grid to the footer. I change onRender 
event of this grid:

customPageNumber++; 

- so when footer (with grid) is rendered then this global variable is 
incremented - algorithm for page numbers

Next I add text to the footer of master page:

<value-of>customPageNumber</value-of>

- so the variable (customPageNumber) should be rendered to indicate page 
number.

But it seems that master page is rendered (or prepared) only once and is 
used for all pages of report because the '1' is on all pages of the report 
although variable customPageNumber is incremented each time footer is 
rendered.

Can I compel birt to rerender the master page for each page of report so 
value of variable customPageNumber will be right?

Or is there another way to implement custom page numbers?
It is possible to turn off page number for first page?

thanks