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
property( image, EmbeddedImage.LIB_REFERENCE_MEMBER );
				try
				{
					if ( image.getLocalProperty( getModule( ),
							(PropertyDefn) image.getDefn( ).getMember(
									EmbeddedImage.DATA_MEMBER ) ) != null )
					{
						byte[] data = base
								.encode( image.getData( getModule( ) ) );
						String value = new String( data, EmbeddedImage.CHARSET );
						if ( value.length( ) < IndentableXMLWriter.MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE )
							writeEntry( DesignSchemaConstants.PROPERTY_TAG,
									EmbeddedImage.DATA_MEMBER, value, false );
						else
							writeLongIndentText(
									DesignSchemaConstants.PROPERTY_TAG,
									EmbeddedImage.DATA_MEMBER, value );
					}
				}
				catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e )
				{
					assert false;
				}
				writer.endElement( );
			}
			writer.endElement( );
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Visits the translations of the module.