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By: Reinhard Achleiter - crazyreini

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2002-12-16 22:39

Is it possible to prohibt that elements will be printed when they are on the last page?

 

 

 

 

 

By: Teodor Danciu - teodord

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2002-12-17 23:54

 

Hi,

 

I think a trick like this will help:

 

https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1786694

 

Thank you,

Teodor

[stelek]

The original message in this post is very old and the solution link leads to a forum that is "private". But since I'm at this problem now, I need to know the way to do it. Can anyone help me please? How do I print something only on the last page? And I mean the "background" band, not the "last page footer"...

[jwindberg]

after many years, I'm still trying to figure out how to do this.

Has anyone solved this?

 

printWhen (OnLastPage), while in the background.

 

I still don't understand why we could not have a PAGES variable that knows how many pages in the report, or ON_LAST_PAGE or something, all these "solutions" involving stuffing things into the report parameters map are just awkward.

[stelek]

The way I do it, is that I print "something" on every page in the background and cover it later. I did not find a way to parametrize it and I gave up. Instead, I'm using additional elements in the "normal" bands to either cover or not cover "something" from the background when the page is/is not the last one.

That's a very dirty solution but it's one that works. You can for example print "something" on the bottom of the background and then add a white, opaque rectangle in the "page footer" section. Set up "print when" expression for the rectangle and it works...