mlreportgen.dom.NumPages Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.dom

Create placeholder for number of document pages

Description

Create a placeholder for the number of pages in a document. This object applies only to Word and PDF output. For Word output, opening a Word document causes Word to replace this object with the number of pages in the document. For PDF output, the DOM API replaces this object with the total number of pages when writing the document.

The mlreportgen.dom.NumPages class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

num = NumPages creates an object for the total number of pages in the report.

Properties

CustomAttributes — Custom attributes of document element

[] (default) | array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects

Custom attributes of this document element, specified as an array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects. The custom attributes must be supported by the output format of the document element to which this object is appended.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Style — Format specification

{} (default) | array of DOM format objects

Format specification for this document element object, specified as an array of DOM format objects. The formats specified by this property override corresponding formats specified by the StyleName property of this element. Formats that do not apply to this document element object are ignored.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

StyleName — Name of stylesheet-defined style

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Style name, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The style name is the name of a style specified in the style sheet of the document or document part to which this element is appended. The specified style defines the appearance of this element in the output document unless overridden by the formats specified by the Style property of this element. To learn more about using style sheets, see Use Style Sheet Styles.

Note

Microsoft^® Word output ignores the style name.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Data Types: char | string

Parent — Parent of mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object

document element object

Parent of mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object, specified as a document element object. A document element must have only one parent.

Attributes:

SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Children — Children of mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object

array of document element objects

Children of mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object, specified as an array of document element objects. This property contains the document element objects appended using the append method.

Attributes:

SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Tag — Tag for mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object

character vector | string scalar

Tag for the mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Specify your own tag value to help you identify where to look when an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Data Types: char | string

Id — Object identifier for mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object

character vector | string scalar

Object identifier for the mlreportgen.dom.NumPages object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the document element object. You can specify your own value for Id.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

Public Methods

Method	Purpose
clone	Copy this object.

Examples

Insert Total Number of Pages

This example inserts the total number of document pages in a page footer. Use this class to display the current page number along with the total number of pages, such as Page 1 of 3.

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
d = Document('mydoc','docx');
open(d);

% Create page footer
footer = DOCXPageFooter('default');
d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters = footer;

% Define page number and add to footer.
d.CurrentPageLayout.FirstPageNumber = 1;
t = Text('Page ');
t.WhiteSpace = 'preserve';
t1 = Text(' of ');
t1.WhiteSpace = 'preserve';
pageinfo = Paragraph();
pageinfo.HAlign = 'center';
append(pageinfo,t);
append(pageinfo,Page());
append(pageinfo,t1);
append(pageinfo,NumPages());
append(footer,pageinfo);

% Create several pages.
p = Paragraph('Hello World');
append(d,p);
p = Paragraph('Another page');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);
append(d,clone(p));

close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);

Version History

Introduced in R2016a