RTF-Report - header/footer on cover page

[Jonathan Lubach]

Hi,

Is there a change on the usage of headers/footers when NOT using the cover page functionality in EA11?

Until EA10 I added one model document to my master document representing the cover page of my document.
The model document pointed to a template which contains the body of the cover page.

All my headers and footers where set in the master document template where I defined different headers/footers for the first page and different ones for the other pages

Since EA11, the footers and the headers of the other pages are also used for the first page even if they are set differently in the master document template.

Remember: I do not use the new features "Cover page" or "Stylesheets" at the moment.

Is this a bug or a feature?

Thanks!

Jonathan

[skiwi]

You are lucky you can get it to work IMHO.
I've struggled with getting header and footers to show (where master document template is applied to the package containing the model document) in EA 11 or EA 12.
(and I am not using any of the new template or cover page functionality yet either).

[Eve]

From memory EA 11 now inserts section breaks instead of page breaks between the different parts of a master document. (Optionally depending on the checkbox in the generate dialog for new page for each)

This means that instead of the first template specifying the header and footer for the whole document, each template being used can specify their own header footer (including the options for first page or odd and even.) It also means individual sections can use a different page orientation etc, layouts, columns and borders.

[Jonathan Lubach]

Thanks Simon,

your post gave me a hint to try if the master document will be correctly generated when setting the master document template to <nothing> and inserting the headers and footers to the model document themselves.

For me this is sufficient.

Jonathan

[skiwi]

I've done some more investigation into the issues I have.
My conclusion: there my be a bug (reported) then the master document template (amongst others) is delivered via an MDG.
It seems likely that the report generator fails to notice the template is in another part of the resources.