Selectively overflowing header information

Question

Hi Everyone,
Currently we are working on a Form in 11.3 which can span into multiple pages. We have a requirement to print header information(approx 4 lines of data in a regular 10 pt font) on the form like policy number, date etc. Per our requirement, we need to print this header only on the odd number pages. On the even pages, the header shouldnt appear.
For accomplishing this we have the tried the following options
Option A
1) We have set copyonoverflow for the Header image. In this way the header image would automatically print on all the different pages
2) We have used a posttrans dal to delete this header image only on the even pages.
The problem with this approach is that when the image is deleted, it leaves a empty space on the top of the even page which makes the o/p look bad.
Option B
We removed the header image from the form during design time. We tried to dynamically add the header image only on the odd numbered pages in posttransdal, again the issue here is that eventhough we add the image, it is just getting overlayed on the existing page. We are not in a position to dynamically shift the remaining contents of the page down. Also this form is totally a dynamic form and we cant just like that shift the remaining contents beneath this header using options like setimage position.
Option C
We tried to put a logic in the header section level trigger/field within the header image. The issue here is that the logic is getting executed only once. If the logic returns true once, the image by default gets copied on all the overflow pages. What I am trying to say here is that eventhough the header image gets copied on overflow multiple times, the DAL associated with the header gets executed only once.
Could you please let us know if we can try any other option for accomplishing this requirement.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick response. As I had specified, the piece of data that I need to display on the header consists of 4 lines. Through POSTTRANS DAL when we add the image, we can just do a overlay of the header image on a existing page.
If the image I am trying to add is of lesser size, then this procedure is fine and there would not be any major issues in the o/p. But the problem with us is that the image that we are trying to add dynamically, atleast occupies more than a inch to inch and a half of space. So we cannot just like that overlay the data.
If the header image is of lesser size then we can just reserve this space during Form design time, so that the extra image can just be overlayed during post transaction. If I dont reserve the space and make everything dynamic then we would have to add the extra image and then move all the images below it using some sought of setpos rules, which makes the form logic very complex.