Events Tab

You use the Events tab to define events at the beginning and end of a node (folder, complex section, table, loop), at which you display additional contents. To do so, SAP Smart Forms offers a header and a footer. These areas are especially useful for displaying table headings and totals lines.

Caution Caution

With the new table nodes this tab is no longer needed because the new table node always contains the directly inferior nodes Header, Main Area, and Footer.

End of the caution.

Features

When you mark the header or footer checkbox, an event node Header or Footer appears in the navigation tree of the Form Builder; in the Output Event group you can now make further settings:

Options for Header and Footer Areas

Field	For	Meaning
At beginning of section	Header Area	Inferior nodes of event node header are printed once at the beginning of the section, for example, before printing the table data.
At end of section	Footer	Inferior nodes of event node footer are printed once at the end of the section, for example, after all table data is printed.
Height	Footer	For the footer, you must specify a height to tell the composer how much space to reserve for the footer. This allows the form processor to postpone the processing of the footer until a page break occurs and enables you to use this area for printing subtotals.
At Page Break	Header and Footer	For additional printing of the header after a page break and of the footer before a page break.

Note Note

You must mark at least one checkbox in the Output Event group. Otherwise SAP Smart Forms will delete the header or footer.

End of the note.

Conditions for Header and Footer Areas

The Conditions tab of the inferior nodes of the header and footer areas contains additional events (Only at Page Break, Only at Beginning of Section, Only at End of Section). These events are input-enabled only if both fields of the Ouptut Event group box are marked (default). In this case, you can print different output depending on the output event. You can use the additional output events to further narrow down the output event.

Constraints

You cannot nest events. After you defined a header or footer for a section, no other subordinate section is allowed to define its own header or footer. In addition. if you use both header and footer, you must always define them together in the same section. The Form Builder checks these conditions.