Pagebreaks in PDF from Answers + Dashboard Filter Value in Answers Title

Hi All,
Question 1:
is there a possibility to to "data driven" page breaks with the PDF printing funcion from Answers?
Say, we have a list of Customers with some Invoice data in a report. When i print the results as PDF, i want to have each customer on a new page. How can i realize this? (BI 10.1.3.4.1).
Question 2:
Is there a possibility to get the selected values of a multichoice dashboard filter into the title of an answers analysis? For dropdown and simple input fields i realized this with variables. But this is not possible for multichoice filters since there is no variable field provided when defining the dashboard prompt?
Thanks in advance

Hi Kuldip,
There are 2 ways of doing it.
1. Nice and good: For the section where the report is put have a condition to display only if it returns rows. For details please refer to :
http://bischool.wordpress.com/category/guided-navigation/
2. The easy way: Add a "No Result" view to your report and add few spaces in the text.
Let me know if this helped.
Regards,
Jay

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