Beginner: More Band Questions

rbuser

Hi,

I'm trying to design a report that has one master band, and four sub-bands
linked directly to the master band like so:

MasterBand
+-------SubBandOne
+-------SubbandTwo
+-------SubBandThree
+-------SubBandFour

What I've done is placed the ppDBText fields for the master band at the top
of the first DetailBand, and then placed the ppSubReport compoents
underneath, one by one.(Screenshot can be found at
http://www.wsd.net.au/temp/bands.gif )

The problem I have with this, is that if I have a masterrecord, that doesn't
have any data for the 4 subbands in it prints, it prints a large gap between
records.

Can someone please point me in the right direction on how I should be
designing this? (I was hoping that the detail band would automatically
deduct the size of the ppSubReportbands within it from the height).

Instead, when I run this report - it prints out a rather messy design.

Thanks & Regards

Adam Hair

nicocizik

Hi Adam,

Be sure that the SkipWhenNoRecords property is set to True on all your
detail datapipelines. Also, you might try moving your column headers into a
group header as I suggested in your other post as this will always print
whether there is data or not. If none of this helps, please send a small
example of this behavior in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com and
I'll take a look at it for you.
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rbuser

Hi Nico,

Thanks for your replies. From them, I've been able to work out most of what
I need, but just can't quite finish it off. (I've sent an example of what
I'm trying to achieve to your email. 9kb file)

Thanks for all your support!

Best Regards

Adam.