Page Headers and Page Footers

Information that is contained in page headers and page footers of RDA reports is grouped together at the top of the XML output. This ensures that the headers and footers do not break up the report data.

Design your reports in RDA without including page headers and page footers. You should design the page headers and page footers in the BI Publisher template.

This is an example of the page header information that is included in the XML output for a batch version of the Purchase Order Print report:

- <PageHeaders>
- <Page_Header_S43> 
     <PageHeaderNumber>1</PageHeaderNumber>
  <R43500_ID1>R43500</R43500_ID1> 
  <Variable_000004_ID4>2007-09-20</Variable_000004_ID4> 
  <szCompanyDescription_ALPH_ID17>06969</szCompanyDescription_ALPH_ID17> 
  <Page__ID7>Page</Page__ID7> 
  <Variable_000006_ID6>1</Variable_000006_ID6> 
   <szReportDescription_ALPH_ID18>Purchase Order Print</szReportDescription_ALPH_
    ID18> 
  </Page_Header_S43>

There are individual page header nodes nested under the PageHeaders node, one for each page of the report where a reprint page header was explicitly called by the report logic. By default, 8.97 and subsequent releases will have only one page header. In this example, the PageHeaderNumber is the same as the Variable_000006_ID6. The PageHeaderNumber is the sequential page number generated by the system. The variable page number is the page number printed in the page header of the report.