Printind detail band adjacent to header band

rbuser

Hi

I have a 4" high billing form that
I need to print as follows...


Customer Name Ordered
Item#1
Address
Ordered Item#2
CSZ
Ordered Item#3

(ie. The detail band needs to print adjacent to the group header.
Is this possible? If so, how?

Thank you in advance.

Bill Lawler
Delphi 6
RB 7.02

nicocizik

Hi Bill,

I'm a bit unclear about exactly how you would like your report to look (the
formatting was lost in your post). It is possible to take control of the
actual page position of a component before its drawcommand is actual drawn
to the canvas. You can override the OnDrawCommandCreate event and manually
assign its Left and Top positions on the entire page. These values are in
thousandths of millimeters (microns).

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico:

My apologies. When I saw what my post looked like,
even I was confused. It doesn't look that way in my head.

I have an invoice that will be 4.5" high by 8.5" wide.
The item detail will print along the right side. The
Customer name, address, etc will print along the left to fit
in an envelope window.

I cannot figure out how to print what I guess would be the Group
Header (Order#) information just to the left of the order detail.
I'm used to doing things top/down and not left/right.

Can you shine some light on the left/right issue?

Hope this make better sense.

Bill

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nicocizik

Hi Bill,

Sorry, I'm still a bit unclear about which items are being brought in from
your database and which are static labels. Have you tried manually moving
your fields on the page as I suggested in my previous post?

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico

It's still classic master/detail with an "orders" master and "items" detail
but instead of printing the normal "master on top" then "detail in the
middle" style of invoice
I need to begin my (GroupHeader) "master" and detail data along the same
(Top property) horizontal. I want to print the master data on the left of
the page and run
my detail lines down the right side of the page.

All of the data will come from the master and detail tables with only a few
labels (it's a pre-printed form)

I just do not know how to program/design for left/right presentation of the
data bands.
Maybe columns??? Don't know. Hope this helps. I cannot think of any other
way to explain it.

Bill

nicocizik

Hi Bill,

One option would be to try to use LeftToRight columns as you mentioned
below. Once you define how many columns you would like to use (Page Setup
dialog or Report.Columns property), you can set the
DetailBand.ColumnTraversal property to LeftToRight to traverse you data
across the page rather than down.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com