Multiple Child subreports not behaving

rbuser

I have a report which uses several subreports within regions with contents
that must stay together. All works well except when there is clearly room
on the page to print the contents (or at least start the contents) of the
second subreport it will perform a new page and start at the top of the next
page instead.

I have:

header
--------------
begin region 1
title for region 2
subreport 1
end region 1
begin region 2
title for region 2
subreport 2
end region 2
-------------
footer

What I get is
pg 1
header
region 1 title
subreport 1 contents

footer

pg 2
header
region 2 title
subreport 2 contents
footer

what I want is

pg 1
header
region 1 title
subreport 1 contents
region 2 title
subreport 2 contents
footer

pg 2
header
subreport 2 contents continued
footer

The regions are set to KeepTogether and stretch
The subreports are set to stretch but not KeepTogether

I have tried to turning off KeepTogether for the regions and turning it on
for the subreports or turning both on or both off. In every case I cannot
get the desired result and some combinations leave region titles on one page
and place subreport data on another.

The problem only seems to ocurr when subreport 2 has more data than can fit
on a page by itself.

Got any ideas? This happens on RB5.56 and 7.02.

Brian

nicocizik

Hi Brian,

By definition, if a subreport is set to KeepTogether, it will try to fit on
one page.... if there is not enough room, it will move to the next page and
try to fit on that one. I feel we could get to the bottom of this issue
much quicker if you send me a small example of what is happening and what
you would like to see happen. Please send the example to
support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll try to get it working the way you
need.

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rbuser

Nico, thanks for the offer. Unfortunately the situation is quite complex
and I have not run into it in any simple case that I could cobble up. I
have been using RB for a long time and it works beautifully 98% of the time.
This is one of those 2% cases.

I realize that setting KeepTogether will force a page if RB thinks it can't
fit all of it on the same page. But when I turn them off, I still get
similar behavior. What I get then is:

header
region 1 title
subreport 1 data
region 2 title


new page
header
subreport 2 data

If I leave KeepTogether off it should perform as I desire but it doesn't.
The contents of the region are split across two pages: the text title on the
page where I want it and the subreport on the next page where it shouldn't
start.

Brian

rbuser

Another point I could mention is that these Child subreports are inside of a
Section subreport - the Section subreport also forcing a new page on open.
Is the Section behavior somehow overriding the Child behavior?

Brian

rbuser

I reworked the whole report and resolved some of my issues.

Thanks for your time Nico.

Can anyone confirm with me that KeepTogether did not work correctly in RB
5.56? It works consistently correct in 7.02 but not in 5.56.

Are there any other fixes or updates between the two versions that I should
know about?