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[Andy Robinson]

The long term solution is smart tables which know that some cells contain
numbers,
and can have sum expressions for groups or the current page, but we don't
have
that right now.

In the meantime there are various approaches and a lot will depend on the
templating/
preprocessing system used to generate the RML, and what code has the
knowledge to
do the summing.  The new "PTO" tag (Please Turn Over, which I now learn is a
Britishism)
gets a long part of the way with the help of some custom code.

Can you send me an example document to make sure we are discussing the right
use case?  Also, can you explain briefly how the RML is generated in your
system?
Then we'll try to come up with a way to do this.


Best Regards,

Andy Robinson

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[mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com]On Behalf Of Michael Trisko
  Sent: 07 July 2005 17:54
  To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com
  Subject: [reportlab-users] (no subject)


  Hi, we're producing documents with Reportlab and I've run into a situation
I'm not sure how to handle.  One of the documents we are producing contains
a table that can be one to many pages, some of the columns in the table
contain numeric values, and we would like to include page subtotals of those
values in the last row of the table on each page.  Since it's possible that
the cells can wrap, it seems difficult to predict which rows will be on
which page, and therefore it seems difficult to calculate the subtotals.



  Can anyone tell me how we can accomplish this with Reportlab?  Unless I
missed something, there was nothing in the User Guide or demos that covered
this.



  Thanks,

  Michael Trisko

  Textura LLC
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