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Blair asked on 01 Aug 2014, 06:52 AM
Hello Telerik Reporting Team,

I would like to ask you to help me formatting PDF export.

Simply what I want to achieve is to let a report start to be printed only in odd numbered page.

For example,
let's say our system is trying to generate employee report in a department.
This department has 5 employees, so the report template needs to be iterated 5 times.

And each report has different length of page, let's say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pages for each employee.

When I export this reports, I would like to see 

PDF page1. Report for Employee1
PDF page2. Empty page
PDF page3. Report for Employee2
PDF page4. Report for Employee2
PDF page5. Report for Employee3

PDF page6. Report for Employee3
PDF page7. Report for Employee3
PDF page8. Empty page
PDF page9. Report for Employee4
PDF page10. Report for Employee4
PDF page11. Report for Employee4
PDF page12. Report for Employee4
PDF page13-17. Report for Employee5

Please advise me if any approach to handle this issue.

Thank you
Sean

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Stef
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answered on 05 Aug 2014, 10:18 AM
Hello Sean,

You can use a ReportBook and gather the reports in it. Each report will start on a new page and there are options to control the page numbering as well. Also there can be added additional reports to produce blank pages or insert additional information in the produced document.
The book is processed and exported as a single document at once.

An example of a ReportBook is available in our local demos installed by default under C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Reporting Q2 2014\Examples.


Let us know if you have any further questions.

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answered on 05 Aug 2014, 11:56 PM
Hello Stef, 

Thank you for advising me.

I think you described how to collect different reports as a book and print it with various options, didn't you?

In my case, I just run a single report composed of 5 employee reports because we are using our own filter to select a department when generating this report.
As a result of running and exporting a report, I got a single PDF file with 5 employee reports in a row.

PDF page1. Report for Employee1
PDF page2. Report for Employee2
PDF page3. Report for Employee2
PDF page4. Report for Employee3
PDF page5. Report for Employee3
PDF page6. Report for Employee3
PDF page7. Report for Employee4
PDF page8. Report for Employee4
PDF page9. Report for Employee4
PDF page10. Report for Employee4
PDF page11-15. Report for Employee5

But I am wondering if there is a way that I can see a PDF report as below.

PDF page1. Report for Employee1
PDF page2. Empty page
PDF page3. Report for Employee2
PDF page4. Report for Employee2
PDF page5. Report for Employee3
PDF page6. Report for Employee3
PDF page7. Report for Employee3
PDF page8. Empty page
PDF page9. Report for Employee4
PDF page10. Report for Employee4
PDF page11. Report for Employee4
PDF page12. Report for Employee4
PDF page13-17. Report for Employee5

Please advise me if any good solution for this.

Cheers
Sean
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Stef
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answered on 08 Aug 2014, 03:21 PM
Hello Sean,

Using the group's Header/Footer section's PageBreak property will allow you to start each new group on a new page. Still to include a whole blank page, the best approach would be to use a ReportBook and add a 'blank' report between the employee's reports.

Feel free to open a support ticket and send us your current report and test data to check your settings and provide you further suggestions.

Regards,
Stef
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