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/executor/ExecutionContext.java
* 
	 * @param map
	 *            name value pair.
	 */
	public void registerBeans( Map map )
	{
		if ( map != null )
		{
			Iterator iter = map.entrySet( ).iterator( );
			while ( iter.hasNext( ) )
			{
				Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) iter.next( );
				Object keyObj = entry.getKey( );
				Object value = entry.getValue( );
				if ( keyObj != null )
				{
					String key = keyObj.toString( );
					registerBean( key, value );
				}
			}
		}
	}
	/**
	 * declares a variable in the current scope. The variable is then accessible
	 * through JavaScript.
	 * 
	 * @param name
	 *            variable name
	 * @param value
	 *            variable value