legend page after each record

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Hi,
I’m creating a Designer template that needs to have a legend page after each record. Each record will be emailed to each recipient as a pdf attachment. I created a second media called ‘Media Legend’ and used a pdf background as the virtual stationary. On the sheet configuration, I set the last sheet to ‘Media Legend’. It works in all cases except when there is only one page, in that case I do not get the legend page. Here is what it looks like:

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Any ideas on how I can get it to show the legend page if I have only one page of data?

Thanks

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Hi @morgan,

For a single page the “Single Sheet” configuration is used. At the top of your screenshot I see “Single Sheet” is associated with “Media 1” and “Master page 1”. If a single page should contain a legend I would expect it to be associated with “Media Legend” and “Master page Legend” instead.

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Hi @Sander ,

I tried changing the single sheet configuration to ‘Media Legend’ and ‘Master page Legend’ but now all records only contain the legend page and no data.

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That sounds very odd. Would you be able to attach a template that shows this? No need to attach data I think.

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Sorry, I was wrong about what was showing, I was looking at the Design tab. The one page record has the Legend as the background but records with more than 1 page are still correct. Attached is the template. I also created anonymized output if you would like me to upload?
transcript.OL-template (3.1 MB)

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So it works properly now if you look at the Preview tab?

No need to upload anything else if there are no issues left :slight_smile:

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No, the 1 page record now shows the Legend page instead of the regular page background.

Attached are 4 pdfs to show the behavior. There are 2 before tests and 2 after tests. The before is before the changes you suggested and the after is after I changed the single sheet to “Media Legend” and “Master page Legend”. Record 1 is a 1 page test and record 2 is a 2 page test. For both the before changes and after changes on the record 2 test, they both work correctly, it shows the 2 pages of data on the regular background, then the legend page. For the record 1 which is the 1 page test the before and after are both not correct. The before has the 1st page but doesn’t have the legend page after. The after test has the 1st page data on the Legend background.

Sorry for the confusion, please let me know if you need any additional details.
Thanks
transcript after change record 1.pdf (2.6 MB)
transcript after change record 2.pdf (3.9 MB)
transcript before change record 1.pdf (1.3 MB)
transcript before change record 2.pdf (3.9 MB)

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Sorry, I understand now. In hindsight your posts were very clear. You don’t want content on the page with the legend, and for “Last Sheet” you accomplish this by setting “Allow Content” to None. This won’t work for “Single Sheet”.

A common approach is to create two separate sections, one for the content and another for the legend. See the modified template:

transcript mod.OL-template (3.1 MB)

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That works perfect. Thank you very much for your help! :smiley: