Bug 153488 Page Break - Page breaks are created for groups automatically
In the latest build, engine alyways creats a page break before the outermost group. Issues: 1) If i add a group with company logo and header, followed by a table (with groups). The output is confusing, a page break occurs between the grid and table. A better solution would be page break occurs before each group, except the first group. Current behavior PageBreakBefore = Always Better solution would be PageBreakBefore = Always but first 2) Looks like engine is automatically putting page breaks for groups. But when I click on the group definition i see the following values. PageBreakBefore - Auto PageBreakAfter - Auto // Auto means inserts a page break before the element if necesary. Suggested solution - When user click on new group dialog, BIRT designer by default sets the value PageBreakBefore = Always but first. This way it is less confusing to end users. Cons - Older reports will not have auto page breaks for groups.
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/writer/ModuleWriter.java
{
		List userProps = obj.getUserProperties( );
		if ( userProps == null || userProps.size( ) == 0 )
			return;
		Iterator iter = userProps.iterator( );
		while ( iter.hasNext( ) )
		{
			UserPropertyDefn propDefn = (UserPropertyDefn) iter.next( );
			property( obj, propDefn.getName( ) );
		}
	}
	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.birt.report.model.elements.ElementVisitor#visitModule(org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.Module)
	 */
	public void visitModule( Module obj )
	{
		writer.attribute( DesignSchemaConstants.XMLNS_ATTRIB,
				DEFAULT_NAME_SPACE );
		writer.attribute( DesignSchemaConstants.VERSION_ATTRIB,
				DesignSchemaConstants.REPORT_VERSION );
		writer.attribute( DesignSchemaConstants.ID_ATTRIB, new Long( obj
				.getID( ) ).toString( ) );
		property( obj, Module.AUTHOR_PROP );
		property( obj, Module.HELP_GUIDE_PROP );
		property( obj, Module.CREATED_BY_PROP );
		property( obj, Module.UNITS_PROP );
		property( obj, Module.BASE_PROP );
		property( obj, Module.INCLUDE_RESOURCE_PROP );