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Continued ...

By Tim Dexter on August 7, 2008 4:16 PM

Emails and forum questions have been on fire on a subject lately. To paraphrase, 'how can I add 'Continued ...' to the bottom of a table if the contents spill over more than one page?' I have solution that uses a template approach to dynamically add content to the page footer but Hok Min, the 'Template Meister Extraordinaire' has come up with an even more 'tricksy' solution that I like better. It uses the page total functionality that we support and its extremely cunning!

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The image above shows the template - standard table with employee data in it. Notice the last row of the table has most of the borders turned off. I have got 'Show Gridlines' enabled so you can see it is another row in the table. There are some other fields in there too.

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Walking through the more important fields:
  • InitPT - <?init-page-total: contd_footer?> - initializes a page total object 'contd_footer' - for more info on this check the user guides.
  • ET - <?add-page-total:contd_footer;1?> - within the table, adds the total into the page.
  • Footer - <?table-footer:?> - an undocumented command (we had other plans for the command for a later release - hence the lack of doc) to specify that this row is the table footer. MSWord does not have a concept of table footer so we need to mark it as such for the rendering engine to 'see'. Notice its in the last row of the table - no borders remember (thats optional)
  • PT - <xdofo:inline-total display-condition="exceptlast" name="contd_footer">Continued ...</xdofo:inline-total> - this is the cool piece. It is supposed to render the page total, but instead it will show the string 'Continued ...' on all but the last page of the table.
  • EET - <?end-page-total:contd_footer?> - this closes out the page total command.
Try it out and play with it here. This approach works with 5.6.3 and above. I'll develop out the page footer approach and post that as soon as I get it working.

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Comments (5)

Tim:

Hey Vetri
Thanks for the tip
Tim

Posted by Tim | August 8, 2008 8:54 AM

Posted on August 8, 2008 08:54

Animesh:

Hi Tim/Vitri,

How about having this continued message for each group if group falls accross the pages.

And how about if we want to have the "Continued ..." message at the top of every page except the page where the group starts.

Rgds,
-Animesh

Posted by Animesh | August 9, 2008 10:36 PM

Posted on August 9, 2008 22:36

Barbara:

Hey Tim,
On 5.6.2 need to avoid carriage returns, input

but it does not work in this version, any suggestions?
Error:
Caused by: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XPathException: Extension function error: Method not found 'chr'


Thanks,
Barbara

Posted by Barbara | August 11, 2008 5:18 AM

Posted on August 11, 2008 05:18

Tim:

@Barbara - what method are you using to avoid/remove the CRs?
@Animesh - this method does handle Continued if the group falls across pages. The header one - you may be able to adapt Vetsrini's method or wait for the other one I have.

Posted by Tim | August 11, 2008 8:45 AM

Posted on August 11, 2008 08:45

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