Smartforms: Page break in main window

Hello all,
I am working on a smartform that has a loop in the Main window which finally shows a table with serveral rows. I would like to have a page break if one group of lines doesn't fit on the page anymore.
I did some research on that and found the following solution:
Protection against page break for several table lines
- Expand the main area of your table node in the navigation tree.
- Insert a file node for the table lines to be protected in the main area.
- If you have already created table lines in the main area, you can put the lines that you want to protect again page break under the file using Drag&Drop. Otherwise, create the table lines as subnodes of the file.
- Choose the Output Options tab page of the file node and set the Page Protection option. All table lines that are in the file with the Page Protection option set are output on one page.
I did all this and activated the form. But when I go the generic output issue to see the form, following error message comes up:
Output could not be displayed (it may not be complete)
Any ideas why this is happening? (If I delete the folder with the "page protection" mark, then it is working fine again..)
Thanks a lot
Anne

Hey Anne,
If you are getting the error as soon as you check the box for page protection, it indicates that its not placed at correct position.
I think you placed the folder at a wrong node. I placed the folder under the main area of the table and placed the row types under the folder. Then i checked the folder for page protection.
Its working for me. I am working in ECC 6.0. I dont know if we have that provision in 4.6 C.
Create the folder under the main area of the table node.
put the row types under the folder and check the box for page protection.
Thanks,
Vamshi.
Edited by: vamshi p on Jan 31, 2008 9:19 PM

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