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I’m trying to create a BI publisher document that has a main section and two optional sections. The report is for an Oracle Apex 4.1 application so user responses regarding the sections they require is via an apex page. Apex allows session state variables to be included in the report data xml so the user responses are stored in the data xml. I’m using an RTF template. The problem is that the optional sections need to have different headings from the main report (and each other) and start on a new page. I just cannot get this report to work. I either end up with headings on blank pages or just blank pages when the user chooses not to have the optional sections.
The queries for the optional sections have been structured in such way that they will only return rows if the user has selected the optional sections.
This is what I’ve tried so far:
Section breaks before the optional sections: The headers for the optional sections appear regardless of whether there’s any data to show. I have to use a section break that will produce a page break because we want the optional sections to start on their own page. Even if I surround the section break and the rowset for the optional section with an if statement I still get a heading on a blank page.
Taking this a stage further if I try to suppress the header by completely surrounding it with an if statement with the appropriate report variable ie
<?if:optional_section_1 = ‘Y’?>
Heading text
<?end if?>
I just get a blank page instead.
If I use the same header and footer throughout the document and use normal page breaks with the optional sections the report works fine.
Templates: I’ve tried splitting the optional parts of the report into sub templates that have their own headings but these headings don’t show up at all in the final report.
Start body/end body tags: That is placing the headers actually in the document text (rather than the actual headers and footers) but outside of these tags. I end up with both headers for the optional parts in my output document. The Oracle documentation “Creating Multiple or Complex Header and Footers” is rather sparse and the example doesn’t really cover what it purports to cover i.e. a document with multiple headings. I’ve done plenty of Google searches regarding this and cannot find any good examples.

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