SubReports - Issue with Page Breaks...

rbuser

Hello - I have D6 Enterprise - with RB 7.02.

I have a report that is setup like
Header
Detail
Subreport
Footer.

The Detail shows the Directory name and the SubReport shows the NTFS
permissions for each user... The report seems to work great - except at
the page breaks. If I have a Detail near the bottom - which then prints
multiple SubReports for that detail - the page seems to print fine.
However, the problem is on the following page. There seems to be a
blank link printed for each Subreport item below the last detail line on
the previous page. The following should show this ....

Header
Directory 1
Owner 1
Owner 2
Directory 2
etc...
...

Directory 7
Owner 1
Owner 2
Owner 3 (there are two more owners to print - so it causes a page
break)

---- New Page ----

Blank Line 1
Blank Line 1
Blank Line 1
Directory 8
Owner 1
etc...


So - each new page begins with blank spaces - instead of the remaining
subreport lines that need to be printed.

Any thoughts? Has anyone else encountered this before?

Bradley
bradley_AT_telus_DOT_net

digitalmetaphors

Is there a PrintPosition set on any control in the detail band that would
cause it to start printing this way? Are there empty group bands that are
printing there? If they are empty and static height, then they will generate
as empty space. Do you have any event handlers? Try temporarily
disconnecting them in order to find out what may be causing the problem. If
you feel it is a bug with RB, then fell free to send a simple zipped example
to support@digital-metaphors.com We prefer DBDemos, Northwind Traders,
Employee.gdb sample databases as these are commonly available and will allow
us to quickly get you project running and tested to verify any issues.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hello Jim,

There are no PrintPosition properties set (at least I couldn't find any)
set. I don't use Group bands. The report is set as...
Header
Detail
SubReport
SubReport - Not Printing at this point
SubReport - Not Printing at this point
Footer

All in all - a fairly simple report. The only event handlers I have are
for the JITPipeline. I need them to get the data.

As for it being a bug... I honestly don't know. It could just as easily
be something I am doing. In terms of sending you the project - that
would not work - as it is fairly complicated and uses other 3rd party
controls. However, I can provide the unit that contains the Report and
JIT Pipelines, the EXE (so you can see what is happening). Would that
be enough for you to be able to take aw quick look and maybe guess at
what might be going on? I might also be able to fudge some data in a a
new sample project - but this will take me a few hours to put
together...

Let me know what is the best way to go about getting your feedback.

Bradley

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digitalmetaphors

Try placing static height colored shapes in each band of the report to see
if there are bands that are not generating draw command, but are forcing the
engine to use up space on the page breaks.

PrintPosition is a property on the different controls in the report. This is
ususally how you can start a band at position Y on the page. This property
being 0 is good.

The JITPipelines can be linked using the detail pipe's MasterDataPipeline
and MasterFieldLinks properties. Is the detail data ordered by the master?
The report engine will not order the data, you have to take responsibility
for ordering the detail data correctly. Can you place a break point in the
OnGetFieldValue for the two pipelines and make sure that they are in the
correct ordering as you expect when it runs?

Can you take the second and third subreports completely out of the report
and create a report that is only one master and one detail subreport to get
that working first? Then try adding only the second subreport and see if
that can print by itself in a master detail relationship. Once you can
verify that each subreport can print in its own individual master detail
report configuration, then try combining them into one report using
ShiftRelativeTo.

It may be as simple as the pipelines not being assigned to the subreports?

Above are my suggestions and guesses, but short of a working demo I can run,
it is going to be difficult to verify any problem either in your code or in
ours. I'd be happy to take a look at the form unit/report layout and run the
exe and maybe I could see something, but most likely it will be
inconclusive. Send all attachments to support@digital-metaphors.com

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I have been having this problem also and have duplicated it in a sample
program. I am sending the sample to support.

rbuser

Ryan,

My problem was caused by not setting the Master DataPipeline on the
JITPipelines for the subreports..

Bradley