Summary on footer of last page

rbuser

Hi

I have most probably missed something very simple here, I am using the
End-User Report Explorer to design a report. The report must print an RTF
field then print a section on the last page of the report where the Client
will read a disclaimer notice and sign the printed report. This section
needs to be placed at the foot of the last printed page.

The Summary band would seem to be the best place for this but I cannot find
a way to get it printed on the foot of the page.

So I tried placing it in a Footer band and selecting that the footer is only
printed on the last page. This does print it correctly but if the report is
only one page long it does not print the footer. If the report is more than
a page a gap is left at the bottom of all pages prior to the last page, the
report seems to be reserving space on the page even if the footer is not
printed.

This seems such a basic thing to do, what am I doing wrong?

Delphi 5 UDP1
ReportBuilder 6.03 Prof

Tom Wedge
CareerVision Ltd

nicocizik

Tom,

You need to set the PrintPosition property of the summary band. This way
you can adjust where this band will print on the last page of the report.
You can access the PrintPosition by right clicking inside the summary band
or by using the Object Inspector in Delphi.

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rbuser

If the text I am printing is of variable length how do I set PrintPosition
so that the Summary is in the same place at the bottom of the page? Would I
need RAP to calculate where the text finished printing and how many report
units it would take to position the summary correctly?

digitalmetaphors

If it is a dynamic height detail band, then there is no way to know until it
is finished generating. Here is an example that lets the summayr generate,
but then moves the summary's output draw commands down the page so that it
is aligned to the bottom above the footer.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/AlignSummaryToBottom.zip

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks Jim

I was looking at a more user friendly solution. We are trying to replace QR
as a report writer the user must be able to alter the reports.

When I tried with the report placing the disclaimer message in the footer
and printing only on last page option, it looked like this might sove our
problem, but a space for a footer is reserved on each page. Is this because
the report does not know about the non printing of footers when it is
generated?

digitalmetaphors

The problem is that the report engine doesn't know if it is the last page or
not, so it must reserve the space at the bottom for the footer in case it is
the last page.

Another option is to set the footerband to be visible = false. Set the
report PassSetting to psTwoPass. Then you know the Report.AbsolutePageCount.
Then in the Report.OnStartPage event, code:

if Report.SecondPass and (Report.AbsolutePageNo = Report.AbsolutePageCount)
then
Footer.Visible := True;


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors