IFS Report Designer - Last Page Footer Size

Hi @Tracy Norwillo,

In Report Designer tool, if the content is a block container, then the size is static, and the height will not grow. You need to increase the height of the container. 

@ashen_malaka_ranasinghe  I’m going to add some pictures to clarify what I’m asking.

I have a Repeat Page with a Repeating Footer set to 1.5 cm.

I have a Last Page where I have the footer set to 4 cm.   I did this by initially setting the Repeat Page to 4 cm.  The value of 4 cm was defaulted into the Last Page Page Footer.  I then went back and adjusted the Repeating page to 1.5 cm.

I removed the table from my Last Footer container and just left it with a red background color.

I can see that there are no visible properties for Last Footer in the Report Designer tool, but if I check the xml, it does show the different sizes.

If I print the report, the last page footer is not the full 4 cm, and it gets jammed to the bottom and cut off. So what’s the intended functionality of the footers? 

Should I be able to have two different sizes?

Hi ​@Tracy Norwillo 

Did you find the solution of your issue? 

Please let me know if you already have the solution as I am also facing the same situation.

​@SNBSHAN  I went back and found the report I was working on and see that what I ended up doing was to make the footer 3 cm so it fit what I was trying to put there on the last page.  Yes, this took up an extra 1.5 cm on the repeating page, but luckily for me, the customer’s usual content wasn’t that long.

I also noticed that I used a container with a horizontal offset to push some content down towards the bottom of the  last page.  It doesn’t pin the content to the bottom, but it was close enough.

​@Tracy Norwillo  Thank you for the reply. So, you want to say the repeating page footer we can make shorter as compared to the last page footer.

I tried but last page footer is inheriting the repeating page footer height.

​@SNBSHAN Yes, that was the goal.  I couldn’t make that work for the reasons shown in my initial post.  I compromised and made the inherited footer larger and pushed some of my last page content down with an container offset.

​@Tracy Norwillo  Thank you. I will also do the same, but my last page footer size is really bigger, it occupies 40% of the whole page, so not sure how this can be set on the last page only.

​@SNBSHAN  For something that large, you might just skip the footer idea and use a container with an offset on your last page.  If it’s static content, you also have the option of using the PDF Insert which will print a pdf after your report content is printed.

​@Tracy Norwillo But offset we can add after the flow area, and for bigger offset, flow area will be less, and that is the problem if we have many pages in the report and because of the big footer in the flow area, we can see few numbers of lines.

​@SNBSHAN Assuming you’re using an actual Last Page in your layout, the offset for the 40% of the page object should be applied just to the last page.  Other option I’ve given above is to use a PDF Insert if it’s static content to print the content after all of the report has printed.  There is also an option to use a static last page.  For something that is as large as 40% of the page, that may work best.

Other than what I’ve already offered, I’m out of ideas.  If none of these work, I suggest creating a topic question of your own so others can help with your particular needs.