SSRS page numbers in page footer - reporting-services

Question

I wish to not include the page number (in the page footer) for the first 10 pages of the report (i.e. page 1-10). Page 1 should read i, page 2 should read ii and page 3 should read iii and so on (in roman numerals).... When it gets to page 11, this should reset the page numbers
Does anyone know of the expression I can use to achieve this. So if GlobalPage number = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 do not display, or compensate the globals page number for something else.....Is this possible.

Answer 1

You'll have to manually change the value i.e. putting something similar to the following in the footer:
IIf(Globals!PageNumber=1, "i", ...
Alternativally you could use a user function try VBA for number to roman numeral

Answer 2

We'll do ths with some custom code to keep flexibility. Microsoft have some code to do the Roman numeral conversion so we'll adapt this.
Let's add the custom code we need: one function to convert an integer to a Roman numeral and one function to work out what sort of numeral to provide.
Function PageNumber(page As Integer, startArabic As Integer) As String
If page <= startArabic Then
PageNumber = IntegerToRoman(page)
Else
PageNumber = (page - startArabic).ToString()
End If
End Function
Function IntegerToRoman (ByVal N As Integer) As String
Const Digits = "ivxlcdm"
Dim I As Integer
Dim Digit As Integer
Dim Temp As String
I = 1
Temp = ""
Do While N > 0
Digit = N Mod 10
N = N \ 10
Select Case Digit
Case 1
Temp = Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 2
Temp = Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 3
Temp = Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 4
Temp = Mid(Digits, I, 2) & Temp
Case 5
Temp = Mid(Digits, I + 1, 1) & Temp
Case 6
Temp = Mid(Digits, I + 1, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 7
Temp = Mid(Digits, I + 1, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 8
Temp = Mid(Digits, I + 1, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Temp
Case 9
Temp = Mid(Digits, I, 1) & Mid(Digits, I + 2, 1) & Temp
End Select
I = I + 2
Loop
IntegerToRoman = Temp
End Function
To make the report more flexible, we'll add a parameter for when to revert to Arabic numerals (in case we need more than ten Roman numerals at some stage when the report gets longer). Let's call that #StartArabic and it will be an integer with the default value of 10. So now our page number expression is simply:
="Page " & Code.PageNumber(Globals!PageNumber, Parameters!StartArabic.Value)