Blank page in report o/p and o/p notprinted when contains multiple pages

Question

Dear Friends,
I am facing couple of issues while modifying an existing report
1. First page of the report is Blank
2. Report output is not printed when the output contains multiple pages.
Currently, along with the data, the report prints the output format in the first page and some totals in the last page.
The requirement is that we do not want these first and last pages.
For this, i made the following modifications to the report.
In the Layout Model,
*1. Under the body of Header section, we have a repeating frame which is printing the output format that comes out as report first page.*
Both Horizontal and Vertical Elasticity are set to Fixed and below is the code in the format trigger on this repeating frame.
function R_HEADER_PAGESFormatTrigger return boolean is
begin
if :p_header_pages = 0
then return(false);
else return(true);
end if;  return (TRUE);
end;I modified this format trigger to always return false as shown below
begin
return false; --statement added by me
if :p_header_pages = 0
then return(false);
else return(true);
end if;  return (TRUE);
end;*2. Under the Body of Trailer section, we have a main frame which prints summary information.*
Both Horizontal and Vertical Elasticity are set to Fixed and below is the contents of the Format trigger on this frame
function M_CONTROL_GRPFRFormatTrigger return boolean is
begin
if :report_term_count > 0
then return(true);
else return(false);
end if;  return (TRUE);
end; I have modified this trigger to always return False as shown below
function M_CONTROL_GRPFRFormatTrigger return boolean is
begin
return false; --statement added by me
if :report_term_count > 0
then return(true);
else return(false);
end if;  return (TRUE);
end;When i run the report after doing these modifications, i am facing the above mentioned problems.
Any idea on why a blank page is coming out before the actual data?
Also when the report output contains multiple pages, the output is not printed. Any idea on this?
Regards,
Sreekanth
Edited by: Sreekanth Munagala on Mar 23, 2012 1:15 AM
Edited by: Sreekanth Munagala on Mar 23, 2012 1:18 AM

Answer 1

Hi InoL,
I have tried by setting vertical elasticity to variable but the blank plage is still coming in the output.
Also, i am just wondering that blank page is not shown for the trailer page even though the Horizontal and Vertical Elasticty is set to Fixed.
Could you please let me know if you have any idea on this?
+InoL Wrote:+
+And this didn't happen before you made the changes to the format triggers?+ Sorry for not mentioning that this happens when i delete the entire fields and frames in Header section.
Setting the Vertical Elasticy of Header to False and returning false in Format trigger still prints the blank page in addition to the actual data pages.
I have also tried setting the option BLANKPAGES=NO in the concurrent program execution options but still the blank page is not suppressed.
Regards,
Sreekanth
Edited by: Sreekanth Munagala on Mar 25, 2012 8:33 PM