[reportlab-users] Sample code for repeating table headers/footers?

[Paul Barrass]

Adrian Klaver wrote:

> On Saturday 21 February 2009 9:44:18 am Dinu Gherman wrote:

>   

>> Hi,

>>

>> I cannot find any sample code for repeating header/footer rows

>> in tables?

> For a header row, straight from the User Guide. Repeats the first row passed to 

> the Table(), in this case the data in dList. 

> tbl = Table(dList,style=TBL_STYLE,colWidths=COL_WIDTHS,repeatRows=1)

>

> I have yet to find a footer equivalent for a table

As far as I'm aware, there is no per-page Table footer - however you 
should be able to adjust the workaround I posted for long table 
performance a while back ( 
http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2008-October/007594.html 
) to provide a footer as well as a header - though I've never checked to 
see if this actually works.  There would be no need to split the data 
into multiple Tables unless you needed the performance boost, and that 
should remove some of the constraints.

That suggestion is really an evil gratuitous hack, and you'd probably be 
a lot better off altering Table to repeat footer rows, but that would 
probably involve a lot of work updating the styling etc.

Paul Barrass.