Conditionally Printing Group Separators

rbuser

Hi,

Using D6 sp2 and RB 7.03.

I am looking for suggestions. I have a report that lists a bunch of orders,
starting with sells and then buys. I need to put a separator between the
sells and the buys. The problem is that sometimes there are only sells and
sometimes there are only buys and the separator still needs to print. Is
there a way that I can print a group footer on the orders that are sells,
and print a group header on the orders that are buys only when there are no
sells? This is an example of how it would look when there are buys and
sells.


Sell 5 4320
Sell 5 4440
----- 5000 (separator) -----
Buy 5 6500
Buy 5 7000

Thanks,
Brad Ostercamp

nicocizik

Hi Brad,

Try creating a global variable that contains the value of the initial group
break value. Then, being sure the group footer/header's visibility is
initially set to false, check to see that the initial group break value is
equal to the current value of the grouping field inside the
DetailBand.BeforePrint event. If they are ever not equal, you know that you
have both "Sells" and "Buys" and you can set the visibility of the group
bands to True.

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