Newbie question: border for a whole page...

rbuser

Hi,

may be this has been answered already...

I want to print a report like a form: each page has several lines and
boxes - no problems with shapes. But: I have a detail area and want the
vertical lines go down to the footer, even when only a few detail records
are printed. And I would like to print a border around the whole page.

How can I do that or where can I obtain information how to do that?

Thank you!

Gerhard

rbuser

Turn on the page style band (Report/Page Style in the designer editor). Make
it the size of the page and create the lines.

Enjoy.

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Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Hi Ed,

thank you - after some extra shapes to cover lines where I don't want them
to appear - it is fine.

Another question:
I want to move e.g. shapes from the header to the pagestyle band - how can I
? Copy and paste doesn't work. The cut out comps allways are pasted to the
original band.

I looked around your site but could not find the pages for demos etc. I am
to blind I guess...

Gerhard

rbuser

> I want to move e.g. shapes from the header to the pagestyle band - how can
I

Just drag it from the current band to the page style band.

Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Hi Ed,


...that works, but then the positions get lost and I have to manually adjust
all comps, which I wanted to avoid - as it was a lot of work already...

The idea is to use the page style band as a kind of form which can be
switched on and off as needed. Only db-data will then be on the
header, detail and other bands.

Is there a simple way to create master-detail-detail-detail reports? Have I
to use subreports? I used QR in the past and logic seems to be a bit
different in RB...

Thank you!

Gerhard

nardmoseley

Yes, you use subreport to create master/detail/detail reports. This
architecture is simpler and more powerful than QR.

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com