Hiding an empty table on forced page break?

OL Connect Professional Designer
1

I have a table that I am forcing to a second page. But, when the table is empty, I want to not only hide the table, but suppress the extra page.

At this point, I can hide the table, but not suppress the extra page.

How might I go about doing this?

2

Hello Compsey,

How are you forcing your table to a second page? Please detail your answer.

How did you hide the table? Are you using a script or the wizard?

Best regards

Luciano Machado

3

Thanks for the reply Luciano.

To force my table to a second page, I edited my style sheet creating a class called .pagebreak.

I used Connects “Edit Rule” and under formats->Breaks, I have the following settings:

Before: always

Inside: auto

After: auto

Widows: 0

Orphans: 0

To hide the table, I am using the hide() function inside a script that says if the table has no elements, hide the <div> the table is inside.

Thank you,

Blaine

4

Hello Blaine,

It is hard to tell exactly what is happening in this case, without see whole context of your configuration. But you can create a script to load your table if it is not empty using:

function add(value, operation) {
if (value === undefined || value === “”)
return;
operation(value);
}

var result = “”;

if(!(record.fields[“ID”] == ‘’))
{
add(record.fields[“ID”], function (value) { result += ’ Contents of table '; });
}

results.html(result);

Maybe its will work better for you

If any of this still seems confusing, I suggest you to open a support call with us so we can better assist you and understand your situation more clearly.

You can either go to Document composition and automation | Upland Objectif Lune and click on ‘‘report an issue’’ or you can call us at 1-866-348-5863.

Regards

Luciano

5

Lets simplify this as your suggestion is not really working for me.

I have a detail table in which I want to hide if it has no records. I have a class which forces a pagebreak. However, I always end up with an extra page if the table is empty.Here is the code for my table and the subsequent script to hide the table:

Table

<table id=“table_8” class=“pagebreak” data-detail=“Table 80” title=“Table 80” data-column-resize=“”
style=“position: inherit; top: auto; left: auto;” offset-x=“37.79999923706055” offset-y=“204” anchor=“page_media_1”>
<thead>
<tr>
<td class=“Field3” colspan=“2” style=“width: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.5pt; height: 0.025in; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px;”>
@recchar@
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=“Field3” colspan=“2” style=“font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.5pt; width: auto; height: 0.025in; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px;”>
&nbsp;
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr data-repeat=“”>
<td class=“data Field3” style=“font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Times New Roman; width: 1in; height: 0.025in; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px;”>
@F1@
</td>
<td class=“data Field4” style=“font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.5pt; height: 0.025in; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px;”>
@F2@
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Script

{
function add(value, operation) {
if (value === undefined || value === “”)
return;
operation(value);
}

var result = "";
if (!record.tables["Table 80"]){
}else{
    add(record.tables["Table 80"], function (value) { result += value; });
    results.html(result);
}

}