Hide show footer with dynamic RTF

rbuser

I have a report with a footer. The only thing in the main footer is a
dbrichtext field. How can I get the report to expand the footer based
on the RTF field and totally hide the footer if the RTF field is null or
blank and by blank i mean no visible text because there always seems to
be RTF coding in there even after you blank out the text.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

nicocizik

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately the page footer is the only band in ReportBuilder that cannot
be dynamically spaced or positioned. Space for the page footer is allocated
before the report is generated. As a work around, you will need to use a
group footer or the summary band.

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rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:

Well I will know if the RTF is empty or not before the page is printed.
IS there a way to 1. determine if a rtf field has real text in it then
2. make the footer band 0 height all in the before print of the report?

nicocizik

Hi Chris,

Inside the FooterBand.BeforePrint event, you could simply check the data
field to be sure it actually contains data. If it does not, you could set
the visibility of the footer band to False to remove it from view in the
report.

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