Word Document Header/Footer Not Working After Upgrade to BIRT 4.20 (Works in PDF)

[ananthakumardu-agi]

After upgrading from BIRT 4.17 to 4.20, we noticed that headers and footers are no longer appearing in Word document exports. The same report renders correctly with headers and footers in PDF format, so the issue seems specific to the Word output.

The report works as expected when run from Eclipse IDE.

Below is sample master page snippet.
```
simple-master-page.txt

Environment:
BIRT Version: 4.20.0
Previous Working Version: 4.17.0
Output Format: Word (DOCX)
Tomcat Version: 9.0.80

Additional Notes:
No changes were made to the report design between versions.
This issue affects multiple reports.

Tried So Far

1. Keeping the header context text instead of grid/dynamic value
2. Tried matching the Eclipse plugin Jars as it's working from Eclipse IDE
3. Setting showHeaderOnFirst as true for the master page

@speckyspooky / @hvbtup can I get some help here ?

Thanks in advance.

[speckyspooky]

Can you provide please a full report-example without external dependencies then we have an option to compare the version.

WHat do you mean with:

The report works as expected when run from Eclipse IDE.

The generation with the BIRT 4.20 designer fo DOCX is fine but the execution based at runtime is not correct...?
Which runtime version do you use: BIRT 4.20 standard or BIRT 4.20 OSGi?

[speckyspooky]

I started some testing with the IDE and with the engine starting calls.

For that I adopted one of the standard test reports.
The results is IDE is ok, run-call is ok and frameset-call is ok.

Example of engine calls:

.../run?__report=\webapps\BIRT_OSGi_4.20\example_chart.rptdesign&paramCust=130&__format=docx

.../frameset?__report=\webapps\BIRT_OSGi_4.20\example_chart.rptdesign&paramCust=130

Example of my test case:

[merks]

Of course we can't actually see your locally hosted pages via these links...

[ananthakumardu-agi]

Hi @merks @speckyspooky , Thank you I was passing the __format=doc, after changing the __format=docx headers and footer details are appearing in the document.
Thank you so much I am closing this discussion.

[ananthakumardu-agi]

Hi