Suppress Page Header/Page Footer When Page Is Blank

[MSGCR]

Been racking my brain over this one.
I have a report that needs to print duplex when the data meets a certain condition. It also needs a "Page A of B" field. So, when there are 3 pages, a 4th blank page must generate, but I need page text to read : "Page 3 or 3" on the 3rd page instead of "Page 3 or 4".

The report is displaying several Report Footer sections at the end. I don't know how to tell the page footer/header that "this page is blank, suppress header and footer." Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[synapsevampire]

Whatever means you're using to force the blank page use as the criteria for this.

Another means might be to store the last value in a variable for each page, and if that is still the value in the page header for the current row, then trigger the suppress that way.

-k

 

[lbass]

The following works in 8.5. This assumes that you have a group where some groups are an odd number of pages in length, while others are even.

To create the blank page, insert a second group footer #1b. Format it to "new page before" and "new page after". Also check "reset page number after". Then format GH#1a to "reset page number after" also. Format the higher order GH#1 to "keep together".

Then create a formula:

whileprintingrecords;
numbervar pagecnt;
if onfirstrecord or
{table.groupfield} = previous({table.groupfield}) then
pagecnt := pagecnt + 1 else
pagecnt := 1;

Place this in your page header. Then go back to the section expert->page header->suppress->x+2 and enter:

whileprintingrecords;
numbervar pagecnt;
pagecnt <> pagenumber

Still in the section expert, highlight GF#2b->suppress->x+2 and enter:

numbervar pagecnt;

remainder(pagecnt,2) = 0 and
{table.groupfield} <> next({table.groupfield})

Place Page N of M into your page header.

-LB