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Minimum Widow Records property

The Minimum Widow Records property specifies the minimum number of instances that should appear on the logical page where the repeating frame starts to print. If the number of instances specified for this property cannot fit on the logical page where the repeating frame is initially triggered to print, then the repeating frame will start formatting on the next page. If set to 1, there is no minimum and the repeating frame will start formatting on any logical page that can fit one instance.

Suppose that to improve the appearance of your report, you want to make sure that you do not have the first instance of the repeating frame printed at the bottom of a logical page, by itself. To make sure that there are at least two instances on the logical page, you set Minimum Widow Records to 2.

Applies to

Repeating frames

Values

a whole number from 2 through 32K

The number of instances is the minimum that can be formatted on a logical page. A blank value is not valid.

0, 1

There is no minimum.

Default

0

Required/Optional

Optional

Restrictions

Example

Suppose that you want all instances of a repeating frame to appear on one logical page. To do this, you set Minimum Widow Records to a very large number. If not all instances can fit on the first logical page where the repeating frame is triggered to print, none will be formatted on that page. Instead, they are all formatted on the next logical page. Notice, though, that on the next and all subsequent pages, Minimum Widow Records is ignored. Since you are starting with a fresh page, if all instances cannot fit on that logical page, they will not all fit on any one logical page anyway.