How to set SubReport to not display when there is no data

rbuser

Hello,

I am using ReportBuilder Professional Edition 6.03, which comes bundled with
our main operating software, Nexus Business Financials by E-Technique.

I am designing a form that we use for printing our company's sales orders
and I am encountering an issue with using 2 sub-reports at the same time. A
screencap of the affected report can be viewed at
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/travis_bd/report.jpg

It probably won't help much, but the layout for the subreport screencap can
be viewed here:
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/travis_bd/ReportTemp.jpg

Subreport #1 is set to print additional details of a stock code, which is
shown on item #1 on the sales order in italics. This uses the SoOrdDetails
data pipeline. Subreport #2 is supposed to display batch/serial numbers of
applicable items. This uses the SoOrdBatches data pipeline. This report is
set to ShiftRelative to Subreport 1 when there is no info in Subreport 1, so
that Subreport 1 also doesn't display an empty line when there is no data in
SubReport1.

The problem I seem to have is that Subreport #2 displays regardless of
whether there is any information in the batch/serial records. Items #2-3
have no batch/serial information applicable, but Item #4 has the
batch/serial information included.

According to E-Technique, they say it is a limitation of the ReportBuilder
program. I do see that we are several versions behind, but I've tried almost
everything that I can see in ReportBuilder to try and stop this from
happening.

Do you have any information or tips that can help me with this?

Many thanks,
Travis Simons

nicocizik

Hi Travis,

You are using a very old version of ReportBuilder. I believe we made some
fixes that relate to the issue you are having however you will need to
contact the company that provided you with the software you are using to
test the new version.

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