Question

BIRT Reporting:

I want to define a master page in a library and use it as a basis for a number of reports. The master page includes just the company logo, date, page x of y and a space for the report title. The report title will be set by the individual report and may contain query data.

How can a report set data in the master page?

Clarification

I want a report (based on a master page) to make a query to fetch data (e.g. report title) and pass that to the master page. e.g. the header contains company logo (fixed) and title (dynamic).

Answer 1

What I did was the following.

• define new parameter in the library e.g. MyHeaderText
• give parameter a default value e.g. Staff list
• include the parameter in the report
• overwrite the default value with the required text e.g. Staff – grouped by country

Worked for me.