Conditional break

Hi,
We use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2 9.0.1.0....
We have a form which can create one letter per PDF. Now we want several letters per PDF, all with the same address but with different items.
Problem
What we already tried is to have a conditional brake. With this items are written on master page 3. But master page 3 should only show up with no items on it, then an address again and only afterwards the next items should appear.
Our PDF should look like this:
letter 1----
     Address
     Item1
     Item2
     Additional Page (master page 3)
letter 2----
     Address (same Address as above)
     Item3
     Item4
     Additional Page
letter 3----
     ..and so on
Our data file xml contains the information for only one address and has the structure
     Address
     Items
          -Item 1
          -Item 2
          -Item n
Our Form has the structure
     Master page 1: Start of a letter.
          Body section shall contain Address and Items
     Master page 2: Overflow
          Body section shall contain Items
     Master page 3: Additional Page at the end of (nearly) every letter.
          Body section shall contain Nothing.
Thanks and Regards
Tobias

The Problem is solved now:
     1. The address has to be moved from the content area of the master page 1 to the master page 1 itself.
     2. Two conditional breaks were added to the table which displays the items.
     a. The first one has
     -"To" = "Top of Master page 3" and
     -"leader" = "(None) and
     -"when" = the grouping condition for the items.
     b. The second has
     -"To" = "Top of Master page 1"
     To avoid that items are printed onto the Master page 3, the height of the content was set to 1 mm. So this page only shows up but the next items immediately flow over to master page 1.
     Regards
     Tobias

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wang, Tien [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 1997 6:09 PM
To: Glen A. Whitbeck
Cc: forte-users; owner-forte-users
Subject: RE: How can I create a page break in a file?
Thank you, Glen. I tried WriteText. But it didn't work.
Tien Wang
Indus Consultancy Services
[email protected]
From: Glen A. Whitbeck
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 1997 11:59 AM
To: Wang, Tien
Cc: forte-users; owner-forte-users
Subject: Re: How can I create a page break in a file?
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Glen
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[email protected]
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for working with me on this. I have sent a copy to the gmail.com address. I'm new to LiveCycle, so please forgive me.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:18:53 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: dynamic tables and conditional page break
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