Is this a bug or ...?

rbuser

Hi,

I have a report which has portrait and landscape pages mixed. I have a
shape component which ParentWidth property set to True and located in the
main report's footer band, if the first page of the report is portrait, it
prints shape rectangle correctly, when the second page which is a landscape
page gets print, then it prints the shape rectangle just like it is still in
the portrait.

The report I'm designing is coming from the Federal Government, they want us
print the report as exactly as it looks like, so it brings me another
serious problem: what if I want print the PageNo description (located at
footer band) ALWAYS at the right bottom corner in every page whatever it is
a portrait or a landscape page, what should I do? Need a workaround as qick
as possible!!!


Another BUG: if the report has portrait (first page) and landscape (second
page) pages, On the preview window, the first potrait page becomes landscape
page, which causing a lot of confusions to our client, e.g. items/data are
not shown up(being cut).


Thanks

William

nicocizik

Hi William,

How are you separating the pages being displayed in either protrait or
landscape mode? Try using a Section Style Subreport to separate the pages
and the positioning of the PageNo Description should print in the correct
position. Please send a small example demonstrating the second bug you
described in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll take a
look at it.

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rbuser

Hi, Nico

In my Main Report, I have only:

Detail Band

Subreport (Child) - Portrait.

Footer (PageNo description at right bottom coner).

In my subreport (Portrait):

Title
DetailBand includes:
1. some grids which occupied almost one page.
2. Subreport(Section, Landscape)

That's it.

For the second bug:

When I first select preivew page, it shows the first page in portrait for a
while then suddenly changed to the landscape after the report engine pass
all pages over. but if you navigate from second page back to first page,
then the first page shows in Portrait again. This bug is not happen
everytime. It seems happen only in design time mode when you do some
modification in the report without saving. I think the problem caused by the
report engine when it passes all pages.


William

rbuser

Hi, Nico

Here is another thing I've noticed, after the engine finishes the pass,
the first page always goes to whatever the last page is. if the last page
mode is Landscape, the first page will goes to Landscape, if the last page
is Portrait, then the first page goes to Portrait.

William

nicocizik

Hi William,

I am having trouble recreating this behavior on my machine. If possible,
please send a small example demonstrating the problem to
support@digital-metaphors.com.

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