For most of our reports we had the page number as a string returned from a program:
Program 'page'

return 'Page: '+alltrim(str(_pageno,10))

We used a program because we wanted a standard format, and because it was easier to type page() than ,i.'Page: '+alltrim(str(_pageno,10)),/i., and, the main reason, because it is easier to change one program than hundreds of reports, so, recently I've changed the page() program to:

return transform(_PAGENO)+' of '+transform(_pagetotal)

Easy it was, but it doesn't work! The _pagetotal is not seen in the report, so the value is not updated, and what we see is something like Page 1 of 1, 2 of 1, ... , 8 of 1...
If I add a _pagetotal field, or a report variable that uses _pagetotal, it works, but I'd like to have this working without changing anything in the reports. It must be easy, I just can't see it...
TIA