How to draw blank detail band manually?

rbuser

Dear all,

I want print report with fixed count detail bands per page (e.g. 10 detail
bands/page). If there is not enough detail bands to fill one page, I want
to add extra blank bands to fill it. I mean 'blank band' is detail band
which has the frame, the necessary column seperators, but no data. Can I
operate report itself, but not the dataset to achive the effect? Thanks for
any help.

Regards,
George

digitalmetaphors

If you want the impression of a form as the background, ie. lines down the
page on every page there is data, then use the PageStyle band and then let
the detail bands generate only the data over the page style band which
always prints in the background. This is going to be the easiest way to do
this.

The only other way to do this is to create draw commands dynamically down
the page. Here is an example of drawing lines after the dynamic height
detail band prints.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/FillPageWithLines.zip

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

"Jim Bennett \(Digital Metaphors\)"

digitalmetaphors

There is no built-in function to generate empty detail bands down the page.
The way for the end user to do this is to provide RAP functions as shown in
this demo:

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/RAPDrawCommands.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors