Skip to Content
Technical Articles
Author's profile photo Sreeram Kumar Madisetty

Table Subforms header repeat for subsequent pages

Requirement – We need to design the table in sap adobe forms in below format (assume)

Header –

HEAD1 | HEAD2| HEAD3|HEAD4|HEAD5|HEAD6|HEAD7|HEAD8

with body design as

Body –

ROW1 | ROW2

ROW3 | ROW4 | ROW5 | ROW6 | ROW7 | ROW8

with the table approach (wizard. Table creation from palette) above is not feasible.

So have opted the sub forms table design and created the 3 sub forms :  1 for header and 1 for body and 1 for table where we can place both header and body sub forms.

Requirement is – header should has to flow to subsequent pages whenever data flows .

Firstly I have designed the table, header and body sub forms as flowed, With this approach, headers are not at all flowing to subsequent pages whenever data flows.

To achieve that , correct approach is –

  1. Table sub form should be flowed
  2. Header sub form should be positioned
  3. Body sub form should be flowed

In the Body sub form ->pagination -> Overflow Leader -> we need to give Header sub form name which ever has to repeat for subsequent pages.

With this approach we can able to design Tables ( headers/body) in our customized ways and also able to repeat headers of the table to sub sequent pages when ever data flows.

 

 

 

 

Assigned Tags

      3 Comments
      You must be Logged on to comment or reply to a post.
      Author's profile photo Ivo Ferreira
      Ivo Ferreira

      Hi Sreeram,

       

      I've been struggling with something similar to what you describe here.

      This is my scenario, Table subform:

      Header subform:

      Body subform:

      After all that, the header is not being replicated in the subsequent pages.

      Am I missing something here?

      Thanks in advance,

      Ivo

       

      Author's profile photo Glauco Ernesto Soares Silva
      Glauco Ernesto Soares Silva

      Hi Ivo,

       

      I was facing a similar issue related to header replication on the next pages. My header is a little bit different, however a friend and I were able to apply the correct settings.

      Please look at the screenshots below.

      REQUIREMENT

      REQUIREMENT

      TABLE

      TABLE

      HEADER

      HEADER

      *Content must be Positioned. This ensure the header will be replicated correctly to the next pages.

      **In my case, I started designing the header as Flowed because it was simpler. Once you have the header ready, you need to change it to Positioned.

      HEADER%20CONTENT

      HEADER CONTENT

      ITEM

      ITEM

      ITEM%20CONTENT

      ITEM CONTENT

      Author's profile photo Ivo Ferreira
      Ivo Ferreira

      Hi Glauco,

      Later, I was able to make it work as well.

      Thanks for your feedback.