Supressing detail items

rbuser

Is there a way to supress output of individual rows in a detail band?

Like..

if this = 'condition' then
Report.Detail.SkipThisRow;

etc.

CT

nardmoseley

if condition then
Report.Detail.Visible := False
else
Report.Detail.Visible := True;


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rbuser

> > Is there a way to supress output of individual rows in a detail band?


Nard,

I went in that direction but say if the condition of #2 out of 3 records was
to be hidden, the entire details section was hidden (all #1-3). I'm talking
more about 'skipping rows'. Does this still apply? Maybe I'm not doing
something right here. My temporary fix has been to set the height to .001
and then back to normal, etc.

CT

nardmoseley

1. Use the Band.BeforePrint event

2. Implement the event-handler exactly as I demonstrated, making sure that
each time the event fires, you evaluate the condition and explicitly set the
visibility to true or false. Keep in mind that the the report, bands, and
elements are all objects. If you set Band.Visible to False in your
event-handler, the band will not print until you set the property back to
true.

Implementing what I describe will result in a report that evaluates each
record and then conditionally prints detail rows.

An alternative solution is to use a SQL query to select only the records
that should be included in the report. This technique is preferrable.
Performance will be better on the data access side of things and on the
report processing side of things, and the report will be simpler.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com