RTF Lines Per Page - Different First and Others

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Happy weekend, Community!

This is a new twist on an old favorite: I need to print a specific number of records per page to ensure that the layout is as expected. The catch is that I need fewer records on the first page, due to a block of information that is not worth repeating (though there are repeating headers and footers). I read up on how to do the basics and spent a day getting my head around it and doing initial testing. Now I am stuck with either a small number of records on the second page (though the first and 3rd pages look find) or a good deal of wasted space at the bottom of every page but the first.

The template is attached, and I can mask some customer data in sample XML if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Leon Barkley · Answer

Oh man, Dexter. Thanks!!

Yours is a much less complex approach and does exactly what I need. Three things to polish it up as seen in the second attachment:

* Losing the page-break included in my original version caused my column headers to disappear after the second page (easily fixed - Never name it.: Repeat Table Header in all pages in BIP​).
* I also needed to make the entire second table conditionally display (again, normal BIP/Word stuff).
* I did *not* need to create the second table on the second page. It could live inline with the main body

Take care,

Leon

timdexter · Answer

Hi Leon

There is no simple way to specify the number of records on the first and then subsequent pages in any dialog..

One solution would be to have a table on the first page that looped over a fixed number of records using the position() function to return the number of the row being processed and an XPATH expression to limit the rows|start the rows.

for-each:ROW[position() < 21]

Now create a second page of the template and define the table again.

for-each:ROW[position > 20]

That would get you 20 rows on the first page and the rest of the rows on page 2 onwards. You can of course change the 20 to something else

Tim