DECISION: a pager whose only two controls are permanently disabled is noise, so
the conventional behaviour ships — the bar is hidden when the result set is a
single page. NotificationReport, which raised the finding, opts in.
RATIONALE for opt-in rather than default-on. OffsetPager is shared, and its
summary span ("Page N of Y · T total") doubles as the ONLY total-count readout
on ConfigurationAuditLog — auto-hiding there would silently delete the result
count for every query returning under a page, and the existing Playwright
fixture asserts "3 total" on exactly such a query. So the behaviour lives in the
shared component (reusable for the next consumer) behind HideWhenSinglePage,
default false, which keeps every current consumer byte-identical.
The guard fires only when single-page-ness is POSITIVELY established:
PageCount <= 1 AND Page <= 1 AND !HasNextPage. A null TotalCount means the host
cannot count, so the bar renders — the controls never vanish while a further
page still exists.
NotificationReport's own Playwright pagination test seeds 51 rows (2 pages) and
is unaffected. 5 new bUnit tests cover hide-on-single-page, hide-on-empty,
show-on-multi-page, show-when-TotalCount-unknown, and the default-off path.
Remove project bookkeeping citations from shipped code comments across the
solution: hyphenated task IDs (WP-14, StoreAndForward-025), milestone/task/
issue refs (M3, Task 4, Audit Log #23, #21), Bundle X task-bundle labels,
and C/D/K/S/T phase labels.
Comment text only — no code logic, string/log literals, or XML-doc structure
changed. Genuine descriptions are preserved (only the citation is stripped),
and technical lookalikes are retained (UTF-8, SHA-256, T00:00:00, M365,
UTC-5, pre-C4/pre-C5 schema versions). Flagged by the new CommentChecker
TaskReferenceInComment / TrackingReferenceInComment checks plus targeted
grep passes; full solution builds clean, append-only guard tests pass.
Joseph Doherty