BI Publisher Desktop - RTF - Start New Group on Odd Page

Hi All,
Versions:
APEX 3.1.2
BI Publisher Desktop: 10.1.3.4
BI Publisher Server: 10.1.3.4 on LINUX
Duplex Printing
Problem:
I tried to get this answered on the BI Publisher forum but it was kinda quiet over there.
I need to start a sub-group on an ODD page in a printed report. BI Publisher does not support MSWord Section Breaks inside inner groups. It strips out the section break RTF code from the RTF file (\sbkodd).
Question:
Is there a way to put the following logic (or equivalent) into BI Publisher Desktop (MS Word RTF format)?
IF Page_number is ODD then
....insert page break
END IF
Insert page break
I am wondering if I am missing something obvious.
Cheers,
Patrick Cimolini

Patrick,
This is not a great way to accomplish this but it might work:
1. in addition to your data set send an item which contains the COUNT of the record set.
2. find out how many records are displayed per page.
3. add some sort of sequence to your rowset such as ROWNUM and check to see if FLOOR(ROWNUM/rows_per_page) +1
FLOOR(ROWNUM/rows_per_page) + DECODE(mod(ROWNUM,rows_per_page),0,0,1) is odd.
edit
that math is off, the last record will get pushed to the next page ill correct it...
Cheers,
Tyson Jouglet
Edited by: Tyson Jouglet on Apr 24, 2009 1:15 PM
Edited by: Tyson Jouglet on Apr 24, 2009 1:20 PM

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