Bug 167267 getParameterDisplayText does not work on MasterPage in PDF
getParameterDisplayText does not seem to work when used on MasterPage. This problem seems to be limited to ReportViewer and PDF format. Table from my testing Deployed to Tomcat View Report in Web Viewer View Report as PDF Format HTML OK OK N/A PDF FAIL FAIL OK Incidentally getParameterDisplayText works fine in all of the above cases if used in footer of table in the report body.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/IReportDocument.java
/**
	 * Given a bookmark in a report, find the (first) page that the bookmark
	 * appears in (for hyperlinks to a bookmark)
	 * 
	 * @param bookmarkName
	 *            bookmark name
	 * @return the page number that the instance appears first
	 */
	public abstract long getPageNumber( String bookmark );
	/**
	 * @return a list of bookmark strings
	 */
	public abstract List getBookmarks( );
	/**
	 * @param tocNodeId
	 *            the id of the parent TOC node. Pass null as the root TOC node
	 * @return A list of TOC nodes thata re direct child of the parent node
	 */
	public abstract List getChildren( String tocNodeId );
	/**
	 * get the TOCNode have the id.
	 * 
	 * @param tocNodeId
	 *            the id of the toc.
	 * @return TOCNode with such an Id. NULL if not founded.
	 */
	public abstract TOCNode findTOC( String tocNodeId );
	
	/**