Suppressing pages within groups > than 2

[Jillp]

We have 30 groups of machines. Within each group we have 3 status types, Frozen, Planned and Available. When printing this report we double side to printer and so only want to print a total of 2 pages per group. Since each group has a varied number of orders in each status group as well as 4 possible comment lines beneath each order, so there is no way to know the number of records that may be returned on each page. I would like to suppress a page if it is greater than 2.

I've got the page numbers resetting on each group so I can easily identify pages over 2, and I can suppress each group and detail line on pages greater then 2, but the page prints 'blank'. Since it is not truly blank but suppressed, I am not sure where to go with this.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Jill Pleau

 

[lbass]

In the section expert, make sure that you have also checked "suppress blank section" the relevant section.

-LB

 

[Jillp]

Thanks for the suggestion, this didn't work for me.

 

[lbass]

I tested this, and was able to limit to two pages per group, BUT could not find a way to eliminate one blank page at the end of the report. If this is close enough for you, then do the following:

Format all page sections to "suppress blank section".

Create two formulas (these can be suppressed):

//{@Reset} to be placed in the group header:
whileprintingrecords;
numbervar cnt;
cnt := 0;

//{@cnt} to be placed in the page footer:
whileprintingrecords;
numbervar cnt;
cnt := cnt + 1;

In the section expert, conditionally suppress the group header and details sections by entering a formula in the x+2 area:

whileprintingrecords;
numbervar cnt;
cnt > 1

-LB