Table Overflow - Page Break - Multiple tables in Body page in Adobe forms

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have to do a payslip in Adobe forms. I am using only Adobe for print forms.

Please redirect me to correct category if this is wrong category.

I am customizing standard form PYXXFO_SAP_PAYSLIP_IN01. (payslip for india through hrforms)

The standard form is entirely positional. So, if the contents of the table overflow, they are overwritten on the contents below.

So, I have to make corrections to adjust the payslip for table overflows.

My changes:

1. There are total 8 tables in form. I created content areas for each of them and assigned the subforms/tables to those content areas.

2. I converted the body page from positional to flowed, and applied the related pagebreak settings.

The problem I am facing:

When the earnings table overflows, the rest of the content is displayed on second page, in a continuous manner.

eg.

The structure of the form is:

Header details

earnings table deductions table form16 table

Other tables

leave details

now, if the earnings table overflows -

page 1:

Header details

earnings table (page break)

Page2:

(continued)earnings table

page3:

(continued)earnings table deductions table form16 table

Other tables

leave details

In this, the deduction table and form16 table is shown on 3rd page. I wish to show them on the first page as they have not overflown.

I am sure, I am missing something very small, but I am unable to understand what.

I tried all the possible combinations.

Does the main subform needs to be "positional"?

They way I expect it is:

page 1:

Header details

earnings table (page break) deductions table form16 table

Other tables

leave details

Page2:

{Header details - It would be great if I could have this}

(continued)earnings table

page3:

{Header details}

(continued)earnings table

Also, If this is successful, I would like to apply the same feature to rest 6-7 tables.

Edited by: chinmay kulkarni on Aug 17, 2011 3:04 PM

[Former Member]

I could get Header Details on each of the pages.

I moved them to Master Page and made the binding as Global.

But I am still stuck with the page break.

I tried to find any sample program from SAP. I searched adobe forms with FP*

But Could not find anything useful.

[Former Member]

This was a duplicate question.

Kindly remove this thread if possible.

The solution for this thread is as follows:

I was sort of hoping that there should be some standard functionality available for this, it being Adobe, but there is not.

So, I had to run a work around. Quite a lengthy one.

What the problem was:

I needed to print around 4-5 tables adjacent to each other in single page and in verticals. What Adobe does is: it fills 1st table, then 2nd then 3rd and so on. So, if there is a page break due to large entries in the adobe, the contents breaks with rest of the tables being blank, but the content being filled sequentially.

What I did was:

I created a grand table with the structure having all the tables embedded in it. eg.

data: begin of grand_table occrs 0,

table_A type table_a_table_type,

table_B type table_b_table_type,

table_c type table_c_table_type,

end of grand_table.

Hence, I could include all the data in a one single grand table, and put the data in sequential manner.