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Dynamic flow around static content?

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I am having difficulty with the way a form wraps content. I have a redesigned form that the customer is satisfied with. However, the customer does not want the approval signature section at the bottom of page 1 to wrap onto subsequent pages when the content above that wraps. The approval section needs to stay static, while the rest of the page wraps to the next.

My first thought is to have that section on the first master page... except that you can't have signature fields on a master page.

So my next thought was to create another content area on the first master page, put that section's subform into that content area, and then it would automatically wrap around it, right? Apparently not. And nothing that I set seems to make a difference.

It does wrap around the extra content area, but it still pushes the section down. So I have a big blank spot at the end of Page1, then it wraps onto Page3Master like it is supposed to, then I get another Page1Master that is blank at the top, with my tiny approval section at the bottom.

I have attached a picture to this, that visually shows how I have the form setup, how I WANT it to work, and how it is behaving instead. I have also attached the form itself. Hopefully less frazzled minds than mine can make some sense of this one.

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Are you telling the flow where to go on the Pagination tab? You can tell it which Content Area to flow to (as well as Page, etc.). So you should be able to flow from the first content area on the first master page to the content area on the second master page. You want to use the "if dataset must be paginated" setting on the Pagination tab and set the OverFlow to the content area you want.

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Yes, I am using the Pageination tab. Originally, I had the overflow set by the page itself. Since I have been having quirky behavior, I then set the overflow individually per subform.

Referencing the picture I posted above,

Subform P1A Overflow is set "Go to Page M3"

Subform P1B Overflow is set "Go to Page M3"

Subform P1C Place is set to "Top of Content Area C1B" and Overflow is set to "None"

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Level 10

For P1A and P1B try using  "Go to Content Area" instead of "Go to Page" and see if that does anything.

You shouldn't need to set anything for the subform in P1C - you just want a positioned subform there.

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Changing it from "Go to Page" to "Go to Content Area" didn't make a difference. No change.

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Sorry, been swamped at work the last bit.

Can you share your form somewhere?