Report Sections & Breaks ---Differences

Hi please let me know the differenece between report Sections & report Breaks, aprt from the basic & obvious differences.
Thanks in advance!

Hello firstly we need to know wether the empty spaces are coming within database fields or is it coming around the data.
The around the data empty space means you have sections which aren't suppressed.
If the empty spaces are coming in the data, that means you have a Null value in those places. To convert those Null values into a value of 0, you have to click
File->Report Options--->Convert Other Null values to Default.
Regards
Jehanzeb

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Hi All,
There is a need to create RTF template which consists of 3 logical parts:
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(3) Static text -> information about signers;
Here is a small screenshot as an example:
Click for full size
The problem is that MS Word will place continuous section breaks before and after multicolumn part. And BI Publisher will transform these section breaks into page breaks. As a result each of 3 parts will be on its own page.
Does anyone have a solution or workaround to avoid such behavior?
Or can advice anything?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Partly solution is to put the 1st part into page header. In this case MS Word won’t place continuous section break before multicolumn part. But still there is a problem with the 3rd part as it will go to separate page :(

Thanks for suggestion.
I've already tried such approach and unfortunately it didn't work.
If there is only "2 column" text in main template with the subtemplate calls before and after text, then text from subtemplates is appended to 2 column text and also formated as "2 column" text.
Here is an example files: URL was removed
XML file is empty as at this moment it is not important.
Purpose is to get all 3 sections without page breaks.
Section 2 can be 2-3 pages big.
Edited by: user534692 on Aug 12, 2009 8:04 AM

I can't delete section breaks in page,

Hi there, this is my first time using sections in Pages. I've tried your online tutorials but I don't seem to be able to combine two sections together, because I can't work out how to delete the section breaks without deleting the document.
The dotted blue line, which I imagine I'm supposed to be fn+delete-ing deletes the substance of the page also. I'm not sure if it makes much difference but the pages I'm working on are only using pictures.
I need to get the sections right for my TOC.
I really appreciate your help. I'm loving my mac, but this bits giving me a headache!
Cheers, S

Hi poolpony
I suspect you have a lot of pictures mixed in with paragraph returns.
When you have a combination of images with the default word wrap on, not quite filling up the width of the page they can interact in unpredictable ways. This can make them pop and disappear when the page they are on disappears from under them.
Select the images and:
+Inspector > Wrap > Object Placement > Floating+
also:
+Inspector > Wrap > uncheck Object Causes Wrap+
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Peter

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Hi there,
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I can go to the last character of each page and insert a "section break". This creates single pages. But it seems a bit odd to me, and with >250 pages, this is quite some work too.
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Sections are what they say they are natural breaks in the document.
Each section usually having headers footers and other basic content in common.
Effectively just like chapters in a book or specifically designed pages in a magazine or report.
If your text naturally flows from one page to the next then they should stick together.
If on the other hand you are treating them all like single leaves of paper to be shuffled around, then you need a section break at the end of each page.
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4. You can transfer by copying and pasting the content into a Layout mode document where every page is its own section.
As with most work, planning, organisation and thinking before you leap, pays off in the long run.
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Section break not breaking in the correct place??

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Section Breaks in BO

Post Author: cubic coma
CA Forum: WebIntelligence Reporting
Please let me know the difffernce between Section & Breaks......apart from the obvious basic diffreneces.Thanks!!

Post Author: jsanzone
CA Forum: WebIntelligence Reporting
Cubic:
A section and a break are pretty much the same in data processing terms. However, in Business Objects, a section is a bit more fancier than a break in two regards: 1) the object that you make as a section "separates" from the grid; 2) the section is now eligible to become an item within your Map. If you merely set a break on an object it remains in the grid and it does not become an item within your Map.
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Need help understandin section breaks or page breaks

Hi there, was hoping I can gain a better undersrtanding of how to use section breaks and page breaks.
I have typed several reports while using apple pages. I click on the VIEW button on upper left corner and all the pages appear to run continously. I do not want that to continue to happen. How can I make each and every page its own page. I have done it once years ago and have observed a this fine line below each page under the view option so that I may move or rearragne pages. Can someone please help?
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Pages 5.1 only lets you delete Sections, you can't drag them into place.
You can Menu > Insert > Section Break on the bottom of every page or
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First, I picked a column that I was selecting (but not displaying) and clicked on the Sum checkbox (the break formatting fields only work when you are also summing a column).
Next, I placed the following code in the "...display this text before break columns" field:
<tr><td colspan="5" >
Then in the next field, I placed the following(without the quotes and spaces - I added them so that it would display here):
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The only "issue" that I noticed is that at the end of the report, I have two empty rows. I'm guessing that they are because one is intended to display the break group total, and the other to display the report total. Oh well.
Hope this helps someone out.
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MartyD

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I have this issue that Tim Dexter documented on a few years back...
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/output_formats/
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Report Sections - Heed help

Post Author: philips
CA Forum: General
Hi,
Anyone knows how to work with Report Sections programatically? I need to be able to add/delete certain objects in some sections of my report at run time. Also, how can I load different pictures/images at run time?
Thanks

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Here is the sample for your reference:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
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class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
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Columns columns1 = new Columns() { Space = "720" };
DocGrid docGrid1 = new DocGrid() { LinePitch = 360 };
sectionProperties1.Append(headerReference2);
sectionProperties1.Append(footerReference2);
sectionProperties1.Append(pageSize1);
sectionProperties1.Append(pageMargin1);
sectionProperties1.Append(columns1);
sectionProperties1.Append(docGrid1);
paragraphProperties1.Append(sectionProperties1);
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wordprocessingDocument.Close();
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paragraphProperties1.Append(tabs1);
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text1.Text = text;
run1.Append(text1);
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paragraph1.Append(paragraphProperties1);
paragraph1.Append(run1);
paragraph1.Append(run2);
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Text text1 = new Text();
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paragraph1.Append(run1);
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Paragraph paragraph1 = new Paragraph();
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Run run1 = new Run();
Text text1 = new Text();
text1.Text = "";
run1.Append(text1);
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paragraph1.Append(run1);
footer1.Append(paragraph1);
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Office 2010 mail merge with section breaks printing problem

Afternoon all,
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