Bug or normal behavior

rbuser

Hi all,

please do the following.

1. Go to new and select a new application.
2. On form1 drop a ppReport.
3. In the designer deactivate header- and footerband.
4. Drop a subreport in the detailband. (Subreport1: No datapipeline
assigned)
5. Set Printbehavior to pbSection.
6. Click on Subreport1. You see header and footer as expected.
7. Drop a label on the header and footer-band. (Label1 and Label2).
8. Activate the preview. You see Label1 and Label2 as expected.
9. Go to the mainreport. Change Printbehavior of subreport1 to pbChild.
10. Go to the subreport again. You see header and footer.
11. Activate the preview. You can not see Label1 and Label2 as expected.
12. Go to the mainreport and change Printbehavior to pbSection again.
13. Activate the preview. You can not see Label1 and Label2 but this is not
expected.

I can do what I want to. Label1 and Label2 keep vanished.

The only that helps is to deactivate and activate the header- and footerband
again.

Can anybody confirm this behavior on RB 7.04?

Cheers

Martin Cremer

nicocizik

Hi Martin,

This is normal behavior. The Page Header and Page Footer bands are not
available in a Child Style Subreport. Though they will show up in the
designer, they are immediately disabled once the report begins generating.
The article I posted in your last thread explained some alternatives to
using a header and footer band in a Child Style Subreport. Here it is again
.

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Tech Tip: Subreport header/footer bands do not print for
Child type subreports.
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For a subreport set to pbChild, the header/footer are not supported.
A child type subreport prints on its parent's page space and
therefore behaves more like a memo.

Options:

1. Use Title/Summary band.

2. Use GroupHeader/GroupFooter. If you need to repeat the header
when a page breaks then then you can create a group and
set StartNewPage to True.


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rbuser

Hi Nico,

many thanks for your fast response. But in your example are no pagenumbers.
This one could be harder. If not please send me a new example.

Thanks in advance

Martin Cremer

nicocizik

Hi Martin,

You can add the page numbers to the report by simply adding a Footer band to
the main report and placing a TppSystemVariable inside. I updated the
example if you need to see it in action...

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

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rbuser

Many thanks Nico,

ShiftRelativTo SubReport1 was the key.

Cheers

Martin Cremer