Blank pages while printing in BO6.5.1

Question

Post Author: Saravanan Perumal
CA Forum: Desktop Intelligence Reporting
Hi,
I'm trying to create a Business objects report 6.5 with more tables and cells than will fit across one page. This results blank pages while printing, Is there any option to fit the cells and Tables into the first page that extended to the second page.
Any one having the idea regarding kindly let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Br
Saravanan.

Answer 1

Hello,
BLANKPAGES specifies whether to suppress blank pages when you print a report. Use this keyword when there are blank pages in your report output that you do not want to print.
rwclient.exe server=<repserver_name> report=only_main.RDF userid=scott/tiger@orcl destype=file desformat=pdf BLANKPAGES=NO
Another solution would be the use of srw.abort_program:
If there is no data, the report is not run:
SRW.PROGRAM_ABORT needs to be called from a format trigger and since any object within repeating frame ( based on main query) will not be formatted unless there is data, So need to have a "Boilerplate Text" outside of Frame and placed at "Main Section"-> "Body". This Text object will have Following format Trigger.
begin
if :data_yn ='Y' then
null;
else
SRW.MESSAGE(100, 'No Data to run report ');
raise SRW.PROGRAM_ABORT;
end if;
return (False);
end;
Here return (false) as do not want to print the text.
data_yn is a user parameter variable, Not exposed to user or at Parameter Page.
There is PL/SQL Filter Written at the Main Query at Data Modal as
function G_EMPNOGroupFilter return boolean is
begin
Select 'Y' into :data_yn from dual;
return (TRUE);
end;
This Helps in setting data_yn to Y is there is data returned by the underlying Query. by default this is Null.
So when Report is executed by passing 2 as value to 'no', Query does not returns any row, So PL/SQL filter will not run and while formatting Blank report, format trigger of the "Text Object" will raise exception to abort report, thus no output.
Similarly if there is data returned by Query then PL/SQL filer will set 'Y' to data_yn and "Text object" format trigger will not raise Exception.
Regards,
Alex