Starting a sub-report on a new page

rbuser

I've seen the tech tips, but my request is not covered there. I just want
some sub-reports to start on a new page. Is there an easy way to do this?

Is there a more up-to-date version of the manual? I've got the Developer's
Guide third edition, and it covers a lot of the concepts, but I can't seem
to find any of these detailed sorts of things in it. Well, maybe it does -
I found how to concatenate info there (I think there ought to be a
component to concatenate fields anyway, but that's another issue. Ah, I
see it is shown in the Query designer help.)

Now, on looking further I've found that a report header has a "New page"
option in the menu. The odd thing is that this causes the header to appear
on one page, and the body of the sub-report to appear on the next. Surely
it should kick to a new page first? And what is "page style"? It isn't
documented in the manual anywhere.

Is there some documentation I'm missing?

Thanks in advance, /Matthew Jones/

rbuser

You may be wanting to point me at the TppSubReport.PrintBehavior property
but this seems to get things all wrong. I have 5 subreports on the main
report, with nothing else but a header and footer. But the top-most
subreport prints last when I tell them all to be sections. This is all
with RBE 7.04 which I think is the latest.

Why might this be happening?

/Matthew Jones/

rbuser

Aaaargh! There is so much power, but so little control!

It appears that the order is set not by the visual order, but by the "
front to back" order. Okay, so I can click in order and sort it out. Not
ideal, but workable I suppose. Except then I find that my first page is
empty, because the first sub-report starts on a new page. So I turn it
into a child, and now it is at the back again! Is there a way to tell RB
to output things in the visual top-to-bottom order? Or something else I
could use to do this?

/Matthew Jones/

rbuser

Can anyone tell me what this means please? From the TppSubReport main
help page:
"Tip: In order to keep section type SubReports from taking up any space in
the parent report, place the SubReport in a band by itself and set the
Band's PrintHeight property to phDynamic."

I can only get on detail band. I thought it might mean a region, but that
doesn't have a printheight.

Is there a property editor for the components in the end-user reporting
tool? That's what I'm using.

/Matthew Jones/

nicocizik

Hi Matthew,

1. One way to force a subreport to start on a new page is to set it as a
Section Style subreport. This will by default start a new page for that
subreport. You can also try using the Band.OutOfSpace property to force a
page break.

2. The third edition of the Developer's guide is the latest edition. The
ReportBuilder help is one of the most complete and extensive help
documentations available for any reporting tool out there. We are
constantly working to improve it as new versions of ReportBuilder are
released.

3. The TppHeaderBand class does not contain a NewPage property. TppGroups
on the other hand do contain this property and should work accordingly.

4. The PageStyle band is generally used to display report components behind
the actual report, such as form lines or a watermark. Please see the
ReportBuilder help on the TppPageStyle topic for more information.

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rbuser

Thanks for that. I'm half making progress with these things.


In the report designer, create a new report with a title. Right click on
it and the menu shows "NewPage" (all one word). Put some text in the title
area, in the header area, and the detail area. Click preview and all is as
you'd expect. Now select the NewPage menu to get the check, and then
preview. Now you will see Title on the first page, and then nothing else
until the second page where you see the header and the detail again. I'm
not sure what the purpose of this could be.

/Matthew Jones/

nicocizik

Hi Matthew,

Sorry, I thought you said you were setting a NewPage property of the header
band, not the title band. The purpose of this feature is to simply print
the title or summary band on a new page. In some cases, you may want your
report to have a complete title or cover page and this feature makes this
easier to accomplish. As I mentioned before, all of these features are
documented in the ReportBuilder help. See the TppTitleBand.NewPage topic
for the documentation on this property.

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rbuser

Ah! The "why" is what was missing - yes, to put a whole page-full of title
on its own page. Now it makes sense. It might be worth adding that to the
help.

I take it there is no PDF version of the component reference? I'm sure it
would help me as I could then read the details of the components in
advance and not wonder around as I go.

/Matthew Jones/